All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised …

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). Notes: Theological, Political and Miscellaneous, p.341
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