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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Animals
Limbs
Dead
Vegan
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Blood
Shocking
Abounding
Animal
Victims
Sprinkled
Nothing
Hung
Kitchens
Kitchen
Horrid
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Scattered
Cry
Cries

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