#pitied

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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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. ↗

— John Woolman

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Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. ↗

— Herodotus

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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. ↗

— Jane Austen

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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised. ↗

— Rockwell Kent

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Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house! ↗

— Jerry Lewis

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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

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Those who do not complain are never pitied. ↗

— Jane Austen

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