Rain is acid...sex is death....

The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life.

Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free$$$ the poor are put in cages.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word$$$ quiet-minded$$$ but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet other readers and kindred spirits.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding$$$ at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

The stiff-backed prig$$$ with his dandified airs and West End swagger.

In a word$$$ in adversity she was the best of comforters$$$ in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...

They talked about each others houses$$$ and characters$$$ and families--just as the Joneses do about the Smiths.

But my kind reader will please to remember that this history has Vanity Fair for a title$$$ and that Vanity Fair is a very vain$$$ wicked$$$ foolish place$$$ full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.