Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles. ✨ Robert …

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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). The works of Robert G. Ingersoll, p.4249, Library of Alexandria
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