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  • A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.

    Henry Fielding (1903). “The Works of Henry Fielding: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”