It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardl…

Kurt Vonnegut
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It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages! ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2007). The Sirens of Titan, p.49, Dial Press
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It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages! ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2007). The Sirens of Titan, p.49, Dial Press

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