The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection. (Henry Ward Beecher)

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

Henry Ward Beecher

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