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  • Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.

    William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.256