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Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.Unknown
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Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor....Unknown
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...chance is sometimes a wonderful accomplice in crime.Unknown
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Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.Unknown
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It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted; in these days traitors wear gloves, scoundrels cloak themselves in public esteem, and their victims die broken-hearted, but smiling to the last. What I have just related to you is almost an every-day occurrence; and yet you profess astonishment.Unknown