Quote#Wisdom
None, so far as I know, will affirm, or at least with any show of…
Quote byWilliam Alcott · 1798–1859
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Vegetable Diet (1838), p. 225.
English (original)
None, so far as I know, will affirm, or at least with any show of reason maintain, that anatomy, so far as that goes, is in favor of flesh-eating.
— William Alcott
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