“ Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ The desire to be pitied or to be admired is often the main reason we confide in others. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
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“ Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honour'd now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty; For I can see no fruits in all their faith, But malice, falsehood, and excessive pride, Which methinks fits not their profession. ”
- Christopher Marlowe- Copy
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“ How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards. ”
- John Gay- Copy
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“ People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority… don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up, rephrase, show to their friends, keep for nine years and are never satisfied… ”
- Desiderius Erasmus- Copy
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