Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature—it requires, in fact, the nature of a true Individualist—to sympathise with a friend's success.
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- The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891); Complete sentence, including the often omitted parenthesis. Checked in University College Cork’s CELT edition, p. 83. Essay’s own voice, not fictional dialogue.
- The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)
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