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

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