"He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity."
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"Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in."
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"Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release."
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"Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience."
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"She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them"
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"The firm basis of government is justice, not pity."
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"It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth."
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"People in distress never think that you feel enough."
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"The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity."
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"To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity."
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"The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable."
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"The cow to me is a sermon on pity."
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"He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop."
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"I wished to be loved by another. But I desire no man's pity."
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"Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!"
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"Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young."
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"If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing."
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"Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!"
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"There are those without decency who must be fought without hesitation, without pity."
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"It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature."
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