"The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief."
- Stendhal, The Red and the Black
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"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
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