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

to sympathise with the benevolent affections. They appear in every respect agreeable to us. We enter into the sa|tisfaction both of the person who feels them, and of the person who is the ob|ject of them. For as to be the object of hatred and indignation gives more pain than all the evil which a brave man can fear from his enemies; so there is a satisfaction in the consciousness of be|ing beloved, which, to a person of deli|cacy and sensibility, is of more import|ance to happiness than all the advantage which he can expect to derive from it. What character is so detestable as that of one who takes pleasure to sow dis|sention among friends, and to turn their most tender love into mortal hatred? Yet wherein does the atrocity of this so much ••bhorred injury consist? Is it in de|priving them of the frivolous good offi|••es, which, had their friendship continued, ••hey might have expected from one ano|ther? It is in depriving them of that friend|••hip itself, in robbing them of each others ••ffections, from which both derived so much ••atisfaction; it is in disturbing the har|mony of their hearts, and putting an end
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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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