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• I would not 'expurgate' school editions of great authors; the frank obscenity of parts of Shakespeare is far less immoral than the prurient prudishness which declines to print it, but numbers the lines in such a way that the boy can go home and look up the omitted passage in a complete edition, with a distinct sense of guilt, which is where the harm comes in It is probable that only a small proportion of homosexual boys in schools can properly be described as "vicious." —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
• (Time to expurgate the VICHY Republicans.) —  Latest Articles
• There is not the slightest reason to regret this thing or to expurgate it. —  Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
• Gibbon; we cannot expurgate what needs to be exorcised. —  The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin
• Failing in this the Papacy commissioned three representatives of the Dominican order to expurgate —  A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy

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