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Better to be disliked than pitied.
Abba Eban / Diplomat
Disliked
Pitied
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Jane Austen / Novelist
Ironic
Mrs Bennet
Prejudice
Never
Those
Complain
Pitied
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Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Error
Pitied
Ridiculed
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
Herodotus / Historian
Envied
Envy
How Much
Pitied
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Jane Austen / Novelist
Inspiring
Nature
Given
Taste
Early
Pitied
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People have always pitied spinsters. We have been derided, as if we had missed out on life.
Patricia Routledge /
Life People Always
Missed
Pitied
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The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld / Author
Desire
Intimate
Admired
Pitied
Proceed
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Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
Jerry Lewis / Comedian
House
Pity
Want
Cripple
Pitied
Wheelchair
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If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
Rockwell Kent / Painter
Beautiful
Eye
World
Eyes Beautiful World
Appears
Pitied
Praised
Viewer
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We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon / Journalist
War
Survivor
Victim
Pitied
Survivors
Victims
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Oliver Goldsmith / Novelist
Marriage
Appreciated
Husband
Wedding Toast
Wife
Pitied
Praised
Wants
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Kurt Vonnegut / Writer
Freedom
Perfect
Policemen
Writing
Writer
Bound
Perfect Freedom
Pitied
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People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who they were.
Miriam Margolyes / Actress
Allowed
Pitied
Ridiculed
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If we believe that a person seeking refuge is to be pitied, feared, despised, and looked down upon, we are doing ourselves a disservice.
Clemantine Wamariya /
Despised
Disservice
Refuge
Seeking
Feared
Pitied
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Father was very sympathetic, and if the hero of a romance was good or to be pitied, his eyes would fill with tears until he could not see.
Frederick Banting / Medical Doctor
Romance
Sympathetic
Tears
Fill
Pitied
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
Karl Philipp Moritz / Author
Men
Country
Feet
Traveller
Considered
Wild
Foot
Meets
Pitied
Shunned
Stared
Suspected
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Many intellectuals feel themselves to be Supermen who are spokesmen for the people. But in my opinion, they're to be pitied. Under Mao's dictatorship, these poor sheep suffered the same fate as everyone else.
Gao Xingjian / Novelist
Dictatorship
Fate
Mao
Suffered
Everyone Else
Intellectuals
For The People
In My Opinion
Pitied
Spokesmen
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It wasn't like I was clinically depressed, but I was so down. I think I was probably depressed. Nothing went my way since college, and I put my head down and kind of pitied myself. That wasn't the right way to go.
Greg Oden / Basketball Player
Right Way
Depressed
Pitied
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The idea of somebody suffering is really painful to every human. In our collective language, we all too often see those who are suffering as a victim to be pitied, to be feared, and even sometimes to be despised. I want to redirect that narrative.
Clemantine Wamariya /
Despised
Narrative
Painful
Collective
Feared
Pitied
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I almost threw up the first time I set foot inside the University of California, San Francisco's Comprehensive Care Center and joined the stream of thin, slow-moving, low-voiced, gray-skinned people. I didn't want to be one of the pitied, the struck-down.
Kelly Corrigan / Writer
California
Comprehensive
Time People Care
Center
Foot
Francisco
Time Care People
Joined
Pitied
San
Stream
Thin
Threw
University Of California
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Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.
Eric Metaxas / Author
Stuck
Overcome
Pitied
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When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
John Woolman / Merchant
Men
Appetite
Civil Society
Disorder
Indulge
Members
Neglect
Pleasure
Regard
Strong
Understanding
Case
Civil
Elevated
Minds
Pitied
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.
Saint Teresa Of Avila /
Belonging
Charity
Compassion
Poor
Sick
Slave
Tenderness
Brothers
Great Man Father
Towards
Persuaded
Pitied
Servants
Slaves
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As a historically voracious reader - pre-baby, I averaged a book every week or two, and when I was a kid, I'd routinely read a book a day - I never understood how some people could not read. When I heard people say they didn't have time to read, in my head, I simultaneously pitied and ridiculed them: there was always time to read.
Celeste Ng / Writer
Time Always Day
Time Day People
Averaged
Historically
Pitied
Voracious
Ridiculed
Simultaneously
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