"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."

Sympathy, Feeling, Resentment, Victims

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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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"It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either."

Johnny Rotten, English Musician

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"Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain."

Lillie Langtry, British Actress

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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."

Kate Smith, American Musician

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"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."

Robert Browning, English Poet

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"Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion."

Louise J. Kaplan, American Psychoanalyst

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"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."

Charles E. Trevelyan, British Politician

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"The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party."

Goldwin Smith, Canadian Historian

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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."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

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"A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason."

William R. Alger, American Writer

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"He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it."

S. J. Perelman, American Writer

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