"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."

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“Yes, I am a fatal man, Madame Fribsbi. To inspire hopeless passion is my destiny.”

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“Stupid people, people who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited.”

“Them's my sentiments.”

“Bravery never goes out of fashion.”

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