How many have withered and wasted under as slow a torment in the walls of that larger Inquisition which we call Civilization! (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

How many have withered and wasted under as slow a torment in the walls of that larger Inquisition which we call Civilization!

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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