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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy; as hunger is a natural call for food.

— Joseph Butler Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel (1726)

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Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.

The first thought is often the best.

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