The Decent Moderation Of Today Will Be The Least Human Of Things Tomorrow.

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The decent moderation of today will be the least human of things
tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of
good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought
not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable
opinion obviously demanded that they burn none at all.
-- Maurice Maeterlinck

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