"I just can't think of anybody abusing an animal; nor of allowing it to stay around, sick, hurt or hungry. I think that an animal is but a point short of human; and, having a skin varying but slightly from our own, will know as much pain from a whipping as would a human child. A blow upon any animal, if I am within sight, is almost as a blow upon my own body. You would think that, with that vast gap which Mankind is continually placing back of him in his onward march in improving this big world, Man would think, a bit, of his pals of hoof, horn and claw."
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Ernest Vincent Wright
Ernest Vincent Wright (March 26, 1871 – October 6, 1939) was an American writer best known for his 1939 novel Gadsby, a 50,000-word lipogrammatic work which avoids the letter "E" (except for four unintentional instances).
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