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To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude; it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-Samuel Johnson
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To Live Without Feeling Or Exciting Sympathy,

Samuel Johnson
To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude; it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
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