"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.“


-James Anthony Froude

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Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

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