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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
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?
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.