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William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes: The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.
         

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.


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