Lady Augusta Murray's commonplace book

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knowledge of mankind, & teach us to feel [[underline]] the sorrows of [[/underline]] our fellows.-- One fastens oneself to others to pursue & overtake joys -- to possess them we must look [[underline]] only to [[/underline]] ourselves. Alas we are all foundlings in this World placed by accident at the door of Fortune, & when we are grown up cast into distress, misery, & regret. The dammed echo among each other in the acme of their torments the agonising sound -- Remorse -- & relapse into despair. --

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