When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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. . . as he had often forcibly argued, all experience tended to show that a man must die and whether he died of a miserable old age in his own country, or prematurely of damp in the bottom of a foreign mine, was surely of little consequence, provided that by a change in his mode of life he benefited the British Empire.
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