Quote#Children
A child will gloat over the sufferings of a wounded animal till his…
Quote bySabine Baring-Gould · 1834–1924
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Book of Were-Wolves (1865), Ch. 9, p. 133.
English (original)
A child will gloat over the sufferings of a wounded animal till his mother bids him "put it out of its misery." An unsophisticated child would not dream of terminating the poor creature's agonies abruptly, any more than he would swallow whole a bon-bon till he had well sucked it.
— Sabine Baring-Gould
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