Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own k…

Thomas Jefferson
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. ✨ Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington, 16 January 1787
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