“Humanity is a pigsty, where lions, hypocrites, and the obscene in spirit congregate.”

—  George Moore (novelist)

Source: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 16.

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