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Letitia Elizabeth Landon - Sympathy is the surest...

Sympathy is the surest destruction of selfishness. Children, like the grown person, grow the better for participation in the sufferings where their own only share is pity. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

Sympathy is the surest destruction of selfishness. Children, like the grown person, grow the better for participation in the sufferings where their own only share is pity.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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