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— Rene Descartes"A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger."
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The tendency to cruelty should be watched in children and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the contrary usage. For the custom of tormenting and killing other animals will, by degrees, harden their hearts even toward man. Children should from the beginning, be brought up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting living beings.
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