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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Source: Letter, 14 April 1781, to Hester Thrale (published in The Letters of Samuel Johnson, vol. 2, no. 724; ed. by R. W. Chapman, 1952).
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.

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