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William Makepiece Thackery:

He was always thinking of his brother’s soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion. It is the sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.

Aside:

I’m reading the ebook of Vanity Fair from Project Gutenberg, so page numbers are meaningless. The quotation comes from the penultimate paragraph of chapter X.

Thackery’s style is verbose (as was that of most Victorian authors), conversational, and quite surprisingly snarky. I recommend the book, but caution you not to expect to breeze through it.

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