“Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.”

Vol. I, ch. 22.
Vanity Fair (1847–1848)

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novelist 1811–1863

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