• The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

    William Makepeace Thackeray: The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
    William Makepeace Thackeray (2000). “Vanity Fair: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.952, Modern Library