To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. ✨ Herman Melville (2012…

Herman Melville
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To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. ✨ Herman Melville (2012). Bartleby and Benito Cereno, p.18, Courier Corporation
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