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William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes: Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.
         

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.


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