When you see persons slip down on the ice, do not laugh at them.... It is more feminine on witnessing such a sight, to utter an involuntary scream than a shout of laughter.
The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies (1839 edition)
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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
