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Of all the animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbour, and yet we herd together.

The Beggar's Opera: John Gay

'No sorrow, no salutary terror, no abhorrence, no seriousness; nothing but ribaldry, debauchery, levity, drunkenness and flaunting vice in fifty other shapes. I deemed it impossible that I could ever have felt any large assemblage of my fellow-creatures to be so odious.'

Charles Dickens: A letter to the London Daily News on attending a public hanging in Newgate Gaol

Sunday, 17 February 2013


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