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  • The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.

    -Ted (Edward James) Hughes
      'View of a Pig'.

  •    In olden days a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking. But now,God knows, Anything goes.

    - Cole Porter
      'Anything Goes', from the show Anything Goes.

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