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"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."
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"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay."

"There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is 'sympathy' - sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered more than they are created at will."

"There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe."

"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for."

"I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one."

"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."

"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism."

"I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals."
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"None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married."

"Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising."

"The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world."

"The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home."
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