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Every single act of cruelty contributes something towards generating in the mind an habit of cruelty.

— Thomas Young An Essay on Humanity to Animals (1798)

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[E]very experiment is cruel which gives pain to an animal, without having for its object the leading to some great and public good.

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[I]t is our duty to cultivate humanity towards animals […] not content merely to rescue animals from pain but to leave them still more abundantly gratified.

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