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The least pain...

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The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

Source: American Literature --Dr. Channing, in Edinburgh Review (Oct. 1829; repr. in Complete Works, vol. 16, ed. by P. P. Howe, 1932).
-- William Hazlitt, (Apr 10 1778-1830), English writer, essayist; He wrote Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, 1817; also noted for essays on value of humanity.


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