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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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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 47328a6711acfc13499e782e061fef0921cddb4de1596f94fcb32480241e3b8d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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