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The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoya

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves. – Catharine Esther Beecher

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It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world. – Nellie Bly

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Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well. – Henry Cabot Lodge

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Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right. – Erich von Stroheim

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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. – Edward Gibbon

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