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A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Age: 52 †
Born: 1811
Born: July 18
Died: 1863
Died: December 24
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A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.
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