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I believe that some day it will have thrust out cruelty altogether, and that the voluntary infliction of pain upon another will be unknown.

From Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Le Gallienne, Richard

For the pure, the sweet, the graceful, the dignified, he will have thrust before his eyes gaudy, tawdry caricature and grimace; and, worse still, perhaps wholly vulgar obscenities.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various