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“Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.”

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Hugh Blair
Hugh Blair

British author born on April 7, 1718, and died on December 27, 1800. Hugh Blair is renowned for his contributions to literature and education, particularly in the Scottish literary and academic circles. more

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