If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, tha…

Leo Tolstoy
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If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.
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