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But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.

Angela Thirkell
Loss, Would Be, Honey
Angela Thirkell (1968). “The Brandons, and others”, Hamish Hamilton
But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.