“The man who pitys everyboddy, wants watching, for the chances are that he iz gitting phatt slily on other peoples misfortunes.”
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
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Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist and writer
Vol. 4, pt. 2, translated by W.P.Dickson.
The History of Rome - Volume 4: Part 2
“I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth”
Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901) American politician, 23rd President of the United States (in office from 1889 to 1893)
Speech in Rutland, Vermont (28 August 1891) as reported in The New York Times (29 August 1891), p. 5 http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9D01E0DD1339E033A2575AC2A96E9C94609ED7CF <br class="br">Context: I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.
Martha Stout (1953) American psychologist
Source: The Sociopath Next Door
Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
Ernesto Sábato
Essays and reviews, Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time (2007)
Ernesto Sábato (1911–2011) Argentine writer, painter and physicist
Ernesto Sábato in: Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time, (2007)