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"Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man."
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Source: Theodore Parker (1863). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of slavery”, p.179
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