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You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!
Mr. TThe usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel JohnsonOften it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Mark TwainThat sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.
Charles DickensI never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray