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Man is always an animal, and civilisation, culture, and the conventions of society are but the mask that covers over the face of the beast.
Sometimes the mask is lifted and then we gaze upon expressions more terrible than those of any creature of the wild, because of the resentment of the beast at the restraints that have been imposed upon him.