Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said ret…

Walt Whitman
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. ✨ Walt Whitman (2013). Leaves of Grass, p.68, Simon and Schuster
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