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The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy. It is only man who calls killing sport and kills for the pleasure of killing not for food, not for self-defense, but just to satisfy some primitive instinct, once necessary and now perverted.

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Gilbert Murray
Age: 91 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 2
Died: 1957
Died: May 20
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