Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. (Thomas Jefferson)

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Thomas Jefferson

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