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

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


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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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