William Makepeace Thackeray Quote

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.


Thackeray's Complete Works: Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush. The Fitzboodle papers. Miscellanies (ed. 1882)


The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.