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“Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the bodies of slain enemies alone; and horrible and fearful as the custom is, immeasurably as it is to be abhorred and condemned, still I assert that those who indulge in it are in other respects humane and virtuous.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“O thou weed!
Who art so lovely fair and smellst so sweet
That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst neer been born!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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