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SURPRISE --- SURRENDER --- SUSPICION --- SWEARING
SWEET --- SWIFT (JONATHAN) --- (THE) SWISS
SYMPATHY --- SYRIA
SYSTEM (THE)

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SURPRISE

see: "UNEXPECTED"
see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links


[Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains) speaking:]
I'm shocked, *shocked* to find that gambling is going on in here!
--Julius J. Epstein (1909—2000), Philip G. Epstein (1909—1952),
and Howard Koch (1902—1995)
"Casablanca" [1942].

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a
lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets
fall a single commonplace remark that shows
us another side, another man really; a man
uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like
ourselves.
--Willa Silbert Cather (1873—1947)
American novelist.
_Shadows on the Rock_ [1931]

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what
we least expected generally happens.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881)
British Tory statesman, novelist, and
Prime Minister [1868, 1874—1880].
_Henrietta Temple_, bk. 2, ch. 4 [1837]

Nothing astonishes men so much as
common sense and plain dealing.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Essays_, First Series [1841], "Art"

[Upon first seeing his future wife, Caroline of Brunswick:]
Harris, I am not well; pray get me a glass of brandy.
--King George IV (1762—1830)
King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1820—1830].

The greatest difficulties lie where
we are not looking for them.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.
In _The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries_
[Pub. by the German Publication Society, 1913] p. 379.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously
called an old man for the first time.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809—1894)
American physician, poet, and essayist.
_A Rhymed Lesson_ [1846]
_The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table_ [1858]

While it is undeniably true that people love a
surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom
pleased to suddenly and without warning happen
upon a series of prunes in what they took to be
a normal loin of pork.
--Fran Lebowitz (b. 1946)
American humorist.
_Metropolitan Life_ [1978]

Old age is the most unexpected of all
things that happen to a man.
--Leon Trotsky (1879—1940)
Russian revolutionary.
_Diary in Exile_ [1935, first pub 1958]

A thing long expected takes the form of
the unexpected when at last it comes.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Mark Twain's Notebook_ [1935]

When I came home I expected a surprise and
there was no surprise for me, so, of course,
I was surprised.
--Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889—1951)
Austrian philosopher.
_Culture and Value_ [1980]

Going unexpectedly into the parlor of their house one day,
Mrs. Webster discoved her husband embracing their maid.
'Noah, I am surprised!' she exclaimed. Webster released
the maid and reassumed his professional dignity. 'No, my
dear,' he corrected his wife, ' it is *I* who am surprised;
you are merely astonished.'
--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]
{Noah Webster (1758—1843) American lexicographer}

[Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland):]
Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh my!
--"The Wizard Of Oz" [1939]
Screenplay by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf.

I turned to Aunt Agatha, whose demeanour was rather like that
of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught
the down express in the small of the back.
--P.G. [Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse (1881—1975)
English humorist; American citizen from 1955.
_The Inimitable Jeeves_ [1923]

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A famous author was autographing copies of his new novel in a
department store. One gentleman pleased him by bringing up not
only his new book for signature, but two of his previous ones as
well.

“My wife likes your stuff,” he remarked apologetically, “so I
thought I’d give her these signed copies for a birthday present.”

“A surprise, eh?” hazarded the author.

"I’ll say," agreed the customer. "She’s expecting a Mercedes."

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aghast (adj.) [κ-'gζst]
Shocked by horror, fright; more recently, just deeply shocked.

boggle (verb) ['bahg-gκl]
1/ To startle or be startled, to shy away from fearfully.
2/ To bungle, botch, or fumble.
3/ To overwhelm with amazement.

gobsmacked or gobstruck (adj.) U.K.
Extremely surprised or shocked (slang)

nonplus (verb) [nahn-'plκs]
To place someone at a loss as to what
to say, do, or think.



SURRENDER

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see: "DEFEAT"
see: "GIVING UP"
see: "WAR & PEACE" for other related links


Even though large tracts of Europe and many old
and famous States have fallen or may fall into the
grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus
of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go
on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall
fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with
growing confidence and growing strength in the
air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost
may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall
fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in
the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in
the hills; we shall never surrender
--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and
Prime Minister [1940—1945, 1951—1955].
Speech in House of Commons [June 1940].

Nuts!
--Anthony McAuliffe (1898—1975)
American general.
Reply to the German demand for the surrender of U.S. forces
at Bastogne, Belgium "N.Y. Times" [22 December 1944].

[Groundskeeper Willie's characterization of the French:]
Cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
"The Simpsons" [30 April 1995]

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abdicate (verb) [ab'di kat']
To formally give up, to repudiate or surrender.

absquatulate [ab-skwoch-uh-leyt], verb:
To flee; abscond.

capitulate [kuh-PICH-uh-layt], intransitive verb
To surrender under agreed conditions




SUSPICION

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see: "DISTRUST"
see: "DOUBT"
see: "FEAR"
see: "JEALOUSY"
see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links


While your friend holds you affectionately by both
hands you are safe, for you can watch both his.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
Quoted in Paul Fatout _Ambrose Bierce the Devils Lexicographer_ [1951].

[On the House Un-American Activities Committee:]
They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his
ass during the national anthem.
--Humphrey Bogart (1899—1957)
American actor.
(I believe this is dialogue from a movie.)

I begin to smell a rat.
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
_Don Quixote de la Mancha_, pt. I, bk. IV, ch. 10 [1605]

To hear a famiIiar [a local, lay executive of the Inquisition]
utter the words 'In the name of the Holy Inquisition' is to be
instantly abandoned by father, mother, relatives, and friends.
For no one would dare to take up his defense, or still less to
intercede for a man about whom these words had been
spoken, for fear of himself becoming suspect in matters
of the faith.
--Juan Alvarez de Colmenar
_An Annal of Spain and Portugal_[1741],
in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.}
_History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 335.

Always suspect a man who affects great softness of
manner, an unruffled evenness of temper, and an
enunciation studied, slow, and deliberate. These
things are all unnatural, and bespeak a degree of
mental discipline into which he that has no purposes
of craft or design to answer, can not submit to drill
himself. The most successful knaves are usually of
this description, as smooth as razors dipped in oil,
and as sharp. They affect the innocence of the dove,
which they have not, in order to hide the cunning
of the serpent, which they have.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CXXIV [1821 ed.]

It, therefore, follows that along the vital Pacific Coast over 112,000
potential enemies, of Japanese extraction, are at large today. There
are indications that these are organized and ready for concerted action
at a favorable opportunity. The very fact that no sabotage has taken
place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action
will be taken.
--John DeWitt (1880—1962)
American army officer.
Final Recommendation of the Commanding General, Western
Defense Command and Fourth Army, Submitted to the Secretary
of War [14 February 1942].

It was a maxim with Foxey — our revered father,
gentlemen — 'Always suspect everybody.'
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_The Old Curiosity Shop_, ch. 6 [1841]

Thrust ivrybody, but cut th' ca-ards.
--Finley Peter Dunne (1867—1936)
American journalist and humorist.
_Mr Dooley's Philosophy_ "Casual Observations" [1900]

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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
--George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880)
English novelist.
_Romola_, p. 443 [1862–1863]


What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
--George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880)
English novelist.
_Middlemarch_ [1871]; Book VIII, Chapter 44.

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A man's most valuable trait is a judicious
sense of what not to believe.
--Euripides (485?—406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.
Helen [412 BC]

Let the buyer beware.
--John Fitzherbert _A Book of Husbandry_ [1523]

That community is already in the process of dissolution
where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible
enemy, where nonconformity with the accepted creed,
political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection;
where denunciation, without specification or backing,
takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes
freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual
supremacy of reason has become so timid that we
dare not enter out convictions in the open lists, to
win or lose.
--Learned Hand (1872—1961)
American judge.
Speech to the Board of Regents, University of the State of N.Y. [24 October 1952].

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking at his neighbor
for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure,
even so to the impure all things are impure.
--Augustus William Hare (1792—1834)
British essayist.

Whoever ... is overrun with suspicion, and detects artifice
and stratagem in every proposal, must either have learned
by experience or observation the wickedness of mankind,
and been taught to avoid fraud by having often suffered
or seen treachery; or he must derive his judgment from
the consciousness of his own disposition, and impute to
others the same inclinations which he feels predominant
in himself.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _The Rambler_ #79 (English twice-weekly journal 1750-1752).

A heart once poisoned by suspicion has no longer room for love.
--August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (1761—1819)
German dramatist.
Quoted in _Marriage in Epigram_, p. 193 [1903].

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Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into
fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion
to certainty.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678]; Maxim 32.


Those who are themselves incapable of great
crimes are ever backward to suspect others.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Maxims_ [1665]

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Suspicion often creates what it suspects.
--C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (1898—1963)
British scholar and novelist.
_The Screwtape Letters_ [1941],
"Screwtape Proposes a Toast"

God help that country where informers thrive!
Where slander flourishes and lies contrive,
To kill by whispers! Where men lie to live!
God help that country by informers fed,
Where fear corrupts and where suspicion's spread,
By look and gesture, even to the dead.
--Archibald MacLeish (1892—1982)
American poet and public official.
_The Black Day_

All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.
_An Essay on Criticism_ [1711]

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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_King Henry VI_, pt. III, V, vi [1590—1591]


See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath:
He that but fears the thing he would not know,
Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes,
That what he fear'd is chanced.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Henry IV, Part 2_, I, i [1596—1599]

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The Terror isolated and stupefied the deputies just as it did
ordinary citizens. On entering the Assembly each member,
full of distrust, watched his words and actions, lest a crime
be made out of them. And indeed everything mattered:
where you sat, a gesture, a look, a murmur or a smile.
--Antoine Claire Thibaudeau (1765—1854)
French politician.
(On the Terror of 1793—1794.)

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid
for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862)
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Pearls of Thought_, p. 254 [1882],
&
Undated entry in "Journal" quoted in
_The Atlantic Monthly_, vol. XCV [1905].

Once bitten twice shy.
--"Times" (London) [17 November 1849]

The old believe everything; the middle-aged
suspect everything; the young know everything.
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.
_Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young_ [1894]

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askance [uh-SKANS], adverb:
1. With suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval.
2. With a side glance; sidewise; obliquely.

inkling (noun)
Faint idea: a vague idea or suspicion about a fact, event, or person



SWEARING

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see: "CURSING"
see: "OBSCENITY"
see: "PROFANITY"
see: "COMMUNICATION" for other related links


The day of the jewelled epigram is passed and,
whether one likes it or not, one is moving into
the stern puritanical era of the four-letter word.
--Noλl Annan (1916—2000)
English historian and writer.
In the House of Lords [1966]; quoted in
George Greenfield _Scribblers for Bread_ [1989].

Bullshit!
--Mel Brooks (1926— )
American actor, writer, and director.
Reply to Playboy interviewer who commented
"You have been accused of vulgarity",
quoted in Maurice Yacowar _The Comic Art of Mel Brooks_ [1981].

Diogenes struck the father
when the son swore.
--Robert Burton (1577—1640)
English scholar, cleric, and author.
_The Anatomy of Melacholy_ [1621—1651]

The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words
instead of bashing their brains out with a club should
be counted among those who laid the foundations of
civilization.
--John Cohen (b.1911)
British businessman,
In "Observer" [21 Nov. 1965].

Swearing was invented as a compromise
between running away and fighting.
--Finley Peter Dunne (1867—1936)
American journalist and humorist.
_Mr. Dooley's Opinions_ [1900]

Swear-words are neutral; they only become objectionable
when someone is offended by them. The art of good
manners (as well as bad manners) is knowing who will
be offended by what.
--John Rae (1931—2006)
English novelist.
_Letters from School_ [1987]

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894]
ch. 10 epigraph: "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

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The blasphemous words whereof Arabella was
found guilty were spoken in great passion occasioned
by the spilling of some scalding pitch upon one of
his feet...

By an act passed in Maryland, 30 Oct. 1704, to
punish Blasphemy, for the first offense the offender
is to be bored through his tongue and fined 20
pounds sterling to H.M. [Queen Anne] towards
defraying the County charge where such offense was
committed, or if ye party hath not an estate sufficient
to answer that sum, then to suffer six months
imprisonment ... the said Charles Arabella in
having been bored through the tongue and lain in
prison six months has thereby fully suffered ye
penalty of the Law for such his offense ... The
premises considered, if H.M. shall judge him a
fit object of her royal compassion and shall be
graciously pleased to order that he be released
out of prison.

--Council of Trade and Plantations to Lord Dartmouth,
secretary of state, Whitehall, [19 December 1710]

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A devout Catholic, [Loretta] Young frowned on unseemly behavior of all
kinds, and particularly disapproved the use of bad language in the workplace.
It was generally understood that there was to be no swearing by anyone
within miles of Loretta's delicate ears, a tall order considering that in the
movie business even the child actors cursed like sailors. To enforce this
edict, Loretta instituted her infamous 'curse box,' requiring an immediate
donation (to be forwarded to one of her Catholic charities) by anyone on
the set uttering a forbidden epithet. This provoked one of the most durable
of [Robert] Mitchum anecdotes. In the pithiest version of the story, an assistant
explained to Bob how the curse box worked, with its sliding scale of penalties.

'It's fifty cents for "hell," a dollar for a "damn," a dollar-fifty for "shit." '

'What I want to know is,' said Mitchum, in a voice that could be heard
throughout Oregon, 'what does Miss Young charge for a "fuck"?

--_The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes_
Introduced by Edward Leeson [2005], "Films, Film Stars and Film-Makers"

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Two fish swim into a concrete wall.
One turns to the other and says, 'Dam!'



SWEET

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see: "THE SENSES"


A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit
in dreams the dear dead we have lost.
--Euripides (485?—406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.
_Alcestis_, l. 355 [438 B.C.]

Words sweet as honey from his lips distill'd.
--Homer (c. 850? BC)
Greek epic poet.
_The Iliad_, bk. I [c. 800 B.C.]

How sweet it is!
--Catchphrase, "The Jackie Gleason Show" [TV show 1952—1970]

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The
pills are harmless, the poison is in the sugar.
--Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909—1966)
Polish writer.
_Unkempt Thoughts_ [1962]

Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.
--Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.—18 A.D.)
Roman poet.
_Amores_ I. 8. 104 [16 B.C.]

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For a...
Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go down-wown
The medicine go down
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way

--Richard Sherman, lyric,
"A Spoonful of Sugar", from _Mary Poppins_ [1964]

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Sweets to the sweet. Farewell.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Hamlet_, V, i [1601]

An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from
sweetness and gentleness of character.
--Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791—1865)
American poet & teacher.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Edge-Tools of Speech_, p. 101 [1886].

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame
in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811—1896)
American writer and philanthropist.
[Sister of Henry Ward Beecher, daughter of Lyman Beecher.]
_Uncle Tom's Cabin_, ch. XXIX [1852]

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill
our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind
with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and
light.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.
_The Battle of the Books_ [1704]

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
--Edward Thomas (1878—1917)
English poet.
"Early One Morning", l. 15 [1917]

Honey catches more flies than vinegar.
--Giovanni Torriano
_Italian Proverbs_ [1666]

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treacly [TREE-klee], adjective:
1. Like, or composed of, treacle.
2. Overly sweet or sentimental.



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SWIFT (JONATHAN)

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see: "AUTHORS"
see: "PEOPLE" for related links


He possessed the Talents of a Lucian, a Rabelais, and a Cervantes,
and in his Works exceeded them all. He employed Wit to the noblest
Purposes, in ridiculing as well Superstition in Religion as Infidelity,
and several Errors and Immoralities which sprung up from time to
time in his Age; and lastly, in the Defence of his Country, against
several pernicious Schemes of wicked Politicians. Nor was he only
a Genius and a Patriot: he was in private Life a good and charitable
Man, and frequently lent Sums of Money without Interest to the
Poor and Industrious; by which means many Families were preserved
from Destruction.
--Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
English novelist and dramatist.
Obituary of Swift [(1667-1745)]
in _True Patriot_ [5 November 1745].



SWISS

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see: "PEOPLE" for related links


Italy for thirty years under the Borgias had warfare, terror,
murder, bloodshed, but produced Michelangelo, DaVinci, and the
Renaissance. And Switzerland had brotherly love and five hundred
years of democracy and peace. And what did they produce? The
cuckoo clock.
--Graham Greene (1904—1991)
English novelist.
"The Third Man" [1949]

I walked across Switzerland and am cured of that little
country for ever. The only excitement in it is that you
can throw a stone a frightfully long way down--that is
forbidden by law.
--D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885—1930)
English novelist and poet.
[1913 letter]

The Swiss are inspired hotel-keepers. Some
centuries since, when a stranger strayed into
one of their valleys, their simple forefathers
would kill him and share out the little money
he might have about him. Now they know better.
They keep him alive and writing cheques.
--C.E. Montague (1867—1928)
British writer.
_The Right Place_ [1924]

The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years
without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for
them. Ever see that little Swiss Army knife they have
to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews.
Bottle openers. 'Come on, buddy, let's go. You get past
me, the guy in back of me, he's got a spoon. Back off.
I've got the toe clippers right here.'
--Jerry Seinfeld (1954— )
American actor, writer, and comedian.

Switzerland is simply a large, humpy, solid rock,
with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_A Tramp Abroad_ [1879]



SYMPATHY

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see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links
see: "KINDNESS" for related links


It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears,
and each weeps really for himself.
--Heinrich Heine (1797—1856)
German poet.
Quoted in _Wit, Wisdom, And Pathos, From the Prose of Heinrich
Heine_ selected and translated by John Snodgrass, p. 45 [1879].

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize
are really looking for the particulars.
--Edgar Watson Howe (1854—1937)
American journalist and author.
Attributed in Evan Esar _20,000 Quips & Quotes_ [1995].

Personalize your sympathies; depersonalize you antipathies.
--William Ralph Inge (1860—1954)
English writer and Dean of St. Paul's [1911—1934].
_More Lay Thoughts of a Dean_ [1931]

There is much noise made about [sympathy for the
distress of others], but it is greatly exaggerated.
No, Sir, we have a certain degree of feeling to
prompt us to do good. More than that, Providence
does not intend. It would be misery to no purpose.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
In James Boswell _Life of Samuel Johnson_ [19 October 1791].

The more you are drawn to put yourself in the place of the
other person, the more you feel the pain inflicted upon him,
the insult offered him, the injustice of which he is a victim,
the more will you be urged to act so that you may prevent
the pain, insult, or injustice.
--Peter Kropotkin (1842—1921)
Russian anarchist.
"Anarchist Morality" (pamphlet 5) [1909]
in _Kroporkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets_
ed. Roger N. Baldwin [1927].

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
--Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842—1933)
American clergyman and social reformer,
_The Pattern in the Mount and Other Sermons _ [1885]

Anyone can sympathize with another's sorrow, but to
sympathize with another's joy is the attribute of an
angel.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860)
German philosopher.
In William James, letter to Mrs Francis J. Child [27 March 1885].

There are those among us who live in rooms
of experience that you and I can never enter.
--attributed to John Steinbeck (1902—1968)
American novelist.



SYRIA

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see: "PLACES" for related links


What was...curious was the atmosphere of the rascally
Syrian town, made of Moslem scoundrels, Christian
thieves, and Jew moneylenders, all of types that blanch
Chicago white. Yet what bores one in Chicago, intensely
amused me in Damascus. They cheated me out of my eye-
lids, stole my letters, lied ten times to the word, and
made me live like a swine, and I only laughed.
--Henry Brooks Adams (1838—1918)
American historian & man of letters.
Letter to Elizabeth Cameron [24 March 1898].



SYSTEM (THE)

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What is wrong then? The system. But when you've said
that you've said nothing. The system, after all, is only
the outcome of the human psyche, the human desires.
We shout and blame the machine. But who on earth
makes the machine, if we don't? And any alterations in
the system are only modifications in the machine. The
system is in us, it is not something external to us. The
machine is in us, or it would never come out of us. Well
then, there's nothing to blame but ourselves, and there's
nothing to change except inside ourselves.
--D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885—1930)
English novelist and poet.
_Education of the People_
[One of four essays written c. 1918]


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