| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 2103 |
| AUTHOR: | Robert Burton (15771640) |
| QUOTATION: | I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader. |
| | Note 1. A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.David Garrick: Prologue on quitting the stage.
Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco (Being not unacquainted with woe, I learn to help the unfortunate).Virgil: Æneid, lib. i. 630. [back] |
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