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

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