There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived. (Florence Nightingale)

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

Florence Nightingale

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