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And why, in this department, should we ever grant dispensations and absolutions; or, like the old popes, sell indulgences to sin?
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Mann questions the morality of granting exceptions to public figures for their misdeeds.
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My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
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