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William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair Quotes: A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.
         

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.


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