"To be exhibited, like an ape in a cage, to people who are fond..."

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"To be exhibited, like an ape in a cage, to people who are fond of one, and of whom one is fond, is a needless and horrible degradation."

Letters to the Daily Chronicle, Prison Reform (letter, 1897)

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