No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. (Henry David Thoreau)

No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

Henry David Thoreau

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