Every civilizing step in history has been ridiculed as 'sentimental', 'impractical', or 'womanish', etc., by those whose fun, profit orconvenience was at stake.
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Mankind continues to become gradually less cruel because a few people in every generation keep saying, 'This isn't right. It hurts me to see it.'Joan Gilbert
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