"How different is […] the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity!"
— Pity

January 1, 1970

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Jane Porter, in Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks by Miss Porter (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807), Vol. I, p. 114.