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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
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"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."
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"Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!"
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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
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"It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one."
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"To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness."
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"My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else."
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"Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them."
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"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."
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"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
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"I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine."
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"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
Power
"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
Sympathy
"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."
Nature
"My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India."
Love
"The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive."
Power
"The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful."
People
"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."
Mistake
"Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule."
Government
"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."
Law
"My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language."
Literature
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