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“Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another. Citation: Of the Tongues of Pigs and Calves in Sausage-skins. Listed on https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci (CC BY-SA)
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Vinci, Leonardo da. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Leonardo da Vinci. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci

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