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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.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ddde496f6cf005f6824bd54a95068afaa74814902cd642560f16ba125eb81eae
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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