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'She stood on the platform watching the receding train. A few bushes hid the curve of the line; the white vapour rose above them, evaporating in the grey evening. A moment more and the last carriage would pass out of sight' (Esther Waters, p.311)


Beattie on sympathy

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James Beattie, An essay on the nature and immutability of truth, in opposition to sophistry and scepticism

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Upheavals of Thought. Definitions of empathy, sympathy and compassion

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Accept this then for a universal law, that neither architecture nor any other noble work of man can be good unless it is imperfect. - Ruskin, Stones of Venice II (1853, 'Nature of Gothic' p. 49)


Never had the upper classes so much sympathy with the lower, or charity for them. as they have at this day and yet never were they so much hated by them. - Stones of Venice


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