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He did not suffer fools lightly and could barely stand those who feared moral excess and so retreated from everything that might tempt them in the world. “do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused, ” he once wrote. “Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?
Stephen Mansfield in his book The Search for God and Guinness quoting Martin Luther