They did not offer the people those gross pleasures which brutalize them; but they gave them music, paintings, improvisators, and festivals, and the government watched over the people as a sultan does over his seraglio.
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They did not offer the people those gross pleasures which brutalize them; but they gave them music, paintings, improvisators, and festivals, and the government watched over the people as a sultan does over his seraglio.
Source: wiktionary
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