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Sir: 'We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.' (1830)
Macaulay] Thou shouldst be living at this hour . . .
Yours faithfully,
G. E. PERREN
Wangford, Sufolk
6 January
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