Don Juan 04-115
Canto the Fourth
 
 CXV
 
Twelve negresses from Nubia brought a price
 Which the West Indian market scarce would bring;
Though Wilberforce, at last, has made it twice
 What 't was ere Abolition; and the thing
Need not seem very wonderful, for vice
 Is always much more splendid than a king:
The virtues, even the most exalted, Charity,
Are saving -- Vice spares nothing for a rarity.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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