No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it. ✨ …

William Makepeace Thackeray
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it. ✨ Thackeray and his Novels by William Makepeace Thackeray, Blackwood's Mag, January 1854.
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