Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. (Oscar Wilde)

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

Oscar Wilde

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