“All creatures kill—there seems to be no exception; but of the whole list, man is the only one that kills for fun; he is the only one that kills in malice, the only one that kills for revenge.”

—  Mark Twain

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 312

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American author and humorist 1835–1910

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