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There are many humorous things in the world: among them the white man&snotion that he is less savage than the other savages. - Mark Twain,Following the Equator People always HAVE eaten people; people alwaysWILL eat people. You can&t change human nature ! - Flanders and Swann,The Reluctant Cannibal, At The Drop Of A H (us.imdb.com/title/tt0106353/)
But you don't knowwhat sort of proposition we're up against in this country.And perhaps you don't know just what the name of Brander Merton means.He's a quiet-looking man enough, and anybody might passhim in the street; not that they get much chance nowadays,for he can only go out now and then in a closed car.But if anything happened to Brander Merton there'd be earthquakesfrom Alaska to the Cannibal Islands. I fancy there was nevera king or emperor who had such power over the nations as he has.After all, I suppose if you'd been asked to visit the tsar,or the king of England, you'd have had the curiosity to go.You mayn't care much for tsars or millionaires; but itjust means that power like that is always interesting.And I hope it's not against your principles to visit a modernsort of emperor like Merton.'`Not at all,' said Father Brown, quietly. `It is my duty to visitprisoners and all miserable men in captivity.'There was a silence, and the young man frowned with a strange and almostshifty look on his lean fac (www.cse.dmu.ac.uk....dulity.txt)
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