Carolina QuotesI can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
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Limbo (1920), "Cynthia"
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- 1920
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“I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their ple…” Aldous Huxley. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-CDA080B061. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/cda080b061
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