I should like to know what well-constituted mind, merely because it is transitory, dislikes roast beef? - William Makepeace Thackeray

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...but think how mysterious and often unaccountable it is — that lottery of life which gives to this man the purple and fine linen, and sends to the other rags for garments and dogs for comforters.

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Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

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If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!

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