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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

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All creatures kill—there seems to be no exception; but of the whole list, man is the only one that kills for fun; he is the only one that kills in malice, the only one that kills for revenge.
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p. 312.

 
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

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