Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
("Vanity Fair")
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Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.
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And whenever he spoke (which he did almost always), he took care to produce the very finest and longest words of which the vocabulary gave him the use, rightly judging that it was as cheap to employ a handsome, large, and sonorous epithet, as to use a little stingy one.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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