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Henri Frederic Amiel

"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism."

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

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"Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience."

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"They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George."

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"I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls."

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"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."

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"California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?"

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"It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy."

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

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

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