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“I just can’t think of anybody abusing an animal; nor of allowing it to stay around, sick, hurt or hungry. I think that an animal is but a point short of human; and, having a skin varying but slightly from our own, will know as much pain from a whipping as would a human child. A blow upon any animal, if I am within sight, is almost as a blow upon my own body. You would think that, with that vast gap which Mankind is continually placing back of him in his onward march in improving this big world, Man would think, a bit, of his pals of hoof, horn and claw.”

Quote by Ernest Vincent Wright

Book:Gadsby

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Gadsby

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Ernest Vincent Wright
Ernest Vincent Wright

Ernest Vincent Wright was an American author known for his unique writing style, most notably for his novel 'Gadsby,' which is notable for being the first novel written entirely without punctuation. Born in 1873, he passed away on October 7, 1939. more

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