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The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.

Mona Caird
Grief, People, Tragedy
Mona Caird, Margaret Morganroth Gullette (1894). “The Daughters of Danaus”, p.490, Feminist Press at CUNY
The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.