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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.

John Dryden
Wicked, Wickedness, Misery
Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Dryden, Alexander Pope (1783). “The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy”, p.153
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.