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If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel read more
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a read more
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.
All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.
Men so noble,
However faulty, yet should find respect
For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty
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Men so noble,
However faulty, yet should find respect
For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty
To load a falling man.
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural read more
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
Cruelty and fear shake hands together
Cruelty and fear shake hands together
