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"It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all."
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"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like."
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