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> [“If one lives where all suffer and starve, one acts on one's own impulse to help. But where plenty abounds, we surrender our generosity, believing that our country replaces us each and several. This is not so, and indeed a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cabeza-de-vaca/if-one-lives-where-all-suffer-and-starve-one-acts-on-one-s-own/)

Cabeza de Vaca

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## More by Cabeza de Vaca

> [“If one lives where all suffer and starve, one acts on one's own impulse to help. But where plenty abounds, we surrender our generosity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cabeza-de-vaca/if-one-lives-where-all-suffer-and-starve-one-acts-on-one-s-own/)

Cabeza de Vaca

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