Quote by Ben Elton
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and op

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them. – Ben Elton

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People who get through life dependent on other peoples possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count. – Ben Elton

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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value. – Ben Elton

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not then marriages would be truly made in heaven. – Ben Elton

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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each others habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. – William Blake

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