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Unless We Wish Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have…
- We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.
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