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Quote by Goldwin Smith
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party. – Goldwin Smith

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Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. – Goldwin Smith

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Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. – Goldwin Smith

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The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength. – Goldwin Smith

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Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. – Woodrow Wilson

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Sympathy is something that shouldnt be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them. – Bob Feller

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Pity cost nothing and aint worth nothing. – Josh Billings

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