“Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.”
Gary L. Francione (1954) American legal scholar
“Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, book Troilus and Criseyde
Book ii, line 470
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)
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Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a deux cent quarante-six variétés de fromage?
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Pt. II, Lib. II, Ch. II.
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Paraphrased variants:
Wherever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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