Quotation by Robert Burns

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Man's inhumanity to Man Makes countless thousands mourn!

Robert Burns

Robert Burns (1759–1796), Scottish poet. repr. In Poetical Works, vol. 1, ed. William Scott Douglas (1891). "Man was made to Mourn," st. 7 (1786).

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