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No child, I think, can walk through a common market or…

Quote byWilliam Alcott · 1798–1859

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Vegetable Diet (1838), pp. 270-271.

English (original)

No child, I think, can walk through a common market or slaughter-house without receiving moral injury; nor am I quite sure that any virtuous adult can.

— William Alcott

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