"Spain and southern Italy, in which Catholicism has……" — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
"Spain and southern Italy, in which Catholicism has most deeply implanted its roots, are even now, probably beyond all other countries in Europe, those in which inhumanity to animals is most wanton and unrebuked."
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20 Quotes by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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