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One of the most quoted passages on human rationalization.
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From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Famous anecdote in which Franklin, a vegetarian on principle, sees small fish in the stomach of a cod being cooked and reasons that since fish eat fish, he may eat them too—observing wryly 'how convenient it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for every thing one has a mind to do.'
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