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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."

"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."

"Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well."

"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."

"But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy."

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

"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."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there."
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