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“A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 55df5f5bd1aa92cace5444f03231848cf4fe0d80c115d57f4f72375769eecc89
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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