If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on th…

Kurt Vonnegut
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If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2011). God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, p.8, Seven Stories Press
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If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2011). God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, p.8, Seven Stories Press

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