He fancied himself on his humanity towards animals, as so many people do who are inhuman to their fellow men...

T.h. White
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John Stuart Mill, in his 1869 book "Autobiography," wrote of an incident in which his father mistreated a dog. Mill recalls that he had learned "how certain people can ignore the existence of their fellow-creatures."

Source: England Have My Bones

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