William Makepeace Thackeray quote about vice from Vanity Fair - the moral world . . . has, perhaps, no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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“ the moral world . . . has, perhaps, no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. ”
 William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1847). copy citation

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Author William Makepeace Thackeray
Source Vanity Fair
Topic vice morality bigotry
Date 1847
Language English
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William Makepeace Thackeray quote about vice from Vanity Fair - the moral world . . . has, perhaps, no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
William Makepeace Thackeray quote about vice from Vanity Fair - the moral world . . . has, perhaps, no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.