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I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
– Muriel Barbery

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  3. Neither your position in society, nor power, nor dignity, nor selfishness, nor even personal promotion should enslave you – Sunday Adelaja
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  10. I understood that I was suffering because I couldn’t make anyone else around me feel better. – Muriel Barbery
  11. If you want to heal Heal othersAnd smile or weepAt this happy reversal of fate – Muriel Barbery
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  21. …that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantment enough. – Salman Rushdie
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  37. Don’t pity this sinful world!Just pity those who made it so! – Toba Beta
  38. All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously. – Tom Robbins
  39. If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people’s pity. – CJ Duggan
  40. When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you’ll send her away very soon. – Michael Bassey Johnson

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