There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and…

Mark Twain
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There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people. ✨ Mark Twain (1869). The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress, p.275
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There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people. ✨ Mark Twain (1869). The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress, p.275

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