Once in every 6 or 7 years our virtue becomes outrageous. We cannot suffer the laws of religion & decency to be violated. We must make a stand against vice. Accordingly some unfortunate man, in no respect more depraved than hundreds whose offences have been treated with lenity, is singled out as an expiatory sacrifice
Lord Macaulay. Review of Thomas Moores Life of Byron 1831
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