“The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?”

— William Makepeace Thackeray , Vanity Fair

The Newcomes, Ch. 20.
Source: Vanity Fair

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novelist 1811–1863

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