We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of… — Edmund Burke
We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful · 1757
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Burke, Edmund. "Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, pt. 1, sec. 14.
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Burke, Edmund. Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. London: R and J. Dodsley, 1757, pt. 1, sec. 14.