You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is co…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). The Conduct of Life, p.4, Harvard University Press
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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). The Conduct of Life, p.4, Harvard University Press

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