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We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world.... It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-h...
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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), British author. "De Juventute," The Roundabout Papers (1863).
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If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and rec...
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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), British author. "George the Third," The Four Georges (1855).
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