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Quote by W.E.H. Lecky
I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necess

I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever. – W.E.H. Lecky

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