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"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."
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"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."

"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."

"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."

"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."

"Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!"

"Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them."

"I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name."

"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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"Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.''The appetite grows by what it feeds on,' said Caderousse."

"Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love, they never allow you to wound their self-esteem."

"However anxious one is to reach one's goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations."

"Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds."

"That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?"

"I don't think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
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