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" The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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" There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. "

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" We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. "

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" The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. "

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