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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:2103
AUTHOR:Robert Burton (1577–1640)
QUOTATION:I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
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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