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The one appeal, quite as clearly as the other, is addressed to emotion, to the particular emotion we call pity.
The Heel of Achilles 2005
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The one appeal, quite as clearly as the other, is addressed to emotion, to the particular emotion we call pity.
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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No pitiful acts, on his part, would surprise me: I know he would be more pitiful in practice than most of the whiners; but the spirit of that practice would still seem to me to be unjustly described by the word pity.
Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial 1871
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I wouldn't say positive, but focused on how we can get better, not focused on wallowing in pity.
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He had a sense of humor and never wallowed in pity.
O'Brien, Kevin 1969
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The judgment is indeed God's, but God deals with His creatures in pity.
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Even the sicknesses of infancy and childhood, of which the three others had their natural share, always passed her by, as if in pity.
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But since you have not attained to it, I advise you to cultivate that form of contempt which is called pity.
Victory Joseph Conrad 1890
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A: If a busload of lawyers goes over a cliff, and there are no survivors, that's known as a pity.
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A: If a busload of lawyers goes over a cliff, and there are no survivors, that's known as a pity.
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