"That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?" — Joseph Addison

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery

A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction

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