Dan Mathews Quotes

Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits.

Dan Mathews

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• Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits.

  

  Dan Mathews
  • Compassion
  • Something
  • Instincts