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“There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.”
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- Source:
- Book ii. Chap. xi. Of Cruelty.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4676f979563b4bedc885272ed7ce8ff18403f8ba01bfc63e60f632895842e882
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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