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If he has taught them as he has taught us to-night, he has debauched their minds.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green

It debauches literature, art, the press, the stage, and the Church; but I don't think even its worst enemies can say it has debauched the cinema stage....

From What Not A Prophetic Comedy by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

Mr. Pendleton, the Democratic Senator from Ohio, declares that the Spoils System which has debauched the Civil Service of fifty millions of people must be destroyed.

From American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Johnston, Alexander