"Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty."

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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?

— William Makepeace Thackeray