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The theory of moral sentiments: By Adam Smith, ...

notice of, necessarily damps the most agree|able hope, and disappoints the most ardent desire, of human nature. The poor man goes out and comes in unheeded, and when in the midst of a croud is in the same obscuri|ty as if shut up in his own hovel. Those hum|ble cares and painful attentions which occu|py those in his situation, afford no amuse|ment to the dissipated and the gay. They turn away their eyes from him, or if the extremity of his distress forces them to look at him, it is only to spurn so disagreeable an object from among them. The fortu|nate and the proud wonder at the insolence of human wretchedness, that it should dare to present itself before them, and with the loathsome aspect of its misery, presume to disturb the serenity of their happiness. The man of rank and distinction, on the contrary, is observed by all the world. Every body is eager to look at him, and to conceive, at least by sympathy, that joy and exultation with which his circum|stances naturally inspire him. His actions are the objects of the public care. Scarce a word, scarce a gesture, can fall from him that is altogether neglected. In a great assembly he is the person upon whom all
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The theory of moral sentiments: By Adam Smith, ...
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Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
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London :: printed for A. Millar; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh,
1759.

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