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“We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against Nature.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of Eating of Flesh. Tract 1.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a8f01814436708c15874476bd6d1baaf080ae6e88d1015586c700953b1b8216c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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