Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympat…

Oscar Wilde
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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2016). Aphorisms, p.65, Oscar Wilde
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