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Home Quotes & Sayings William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes (About Fairness, Purposes, Sons)

William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes: By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be…

By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards-and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous-but the honestest fellow.

("Vanity Fair")

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