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But I never dreamed that all punishment could be dispensed with in human society.
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Blaine acknowledges the necessity of some form of punishment in society, despite his opposition to capital punishment.
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I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
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He had placed himself in a position from which he could not with grace retreat, and to go forward in which was still further to blight his hopes of promotion in his party.
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