"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read."
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"I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child."
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"Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art."
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"No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect."
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"What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest."
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"The sea has neither meaning nor pity."
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"A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad."
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"What is pity but the vice of kindness."
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"It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled."
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"No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast."
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"Soft pity enters an iron gate."
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"Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman."
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"The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently."
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"As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them."
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"A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written."
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"The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity."
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"When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive."
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"There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy."
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"So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!"
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"Pity swells the tide of love."
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