He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequenc…

Cormac McCarthy
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He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that the wolf is a being of great order and that it knows what men do not: that there is no order in this world save that which death has put there. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2013). The Border Trilogy, p.331, Pan Macmillan
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