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Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
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