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"I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts."

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Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

— Jonathan Swift

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The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.

— John Dryden

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