A Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

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

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William Makepeace Thackeray
English - Novelist
July 18, 1811 - December 24, 1863

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