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User_gary Posted 19 years ago
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0If misery be the effect of 00virtue00, it ought to be 00reverenced;00 if of 00ill-fortune00, to be pitied; and if of 00vice00, not to be insulted; because it is perhaps, itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced; and the humanity of that man can deserve no 00panegyric 00who is capale of reproaching a criminal in the hands of the 00executioner00.02br
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02br 02br 00If someone is miserable as the result of doing a bad deed, you should consider the misery as part of the punishment for that bad deed. 0-

— Lil' Ruby Rose

  • 02br 02br 00If someone is miserable as the result of doing a bad deed, you should consider the misery as part of the punishment for that bad deed.
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0The writer is talking about situations where misery might have a positive outcome.02br
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00If someone is miserable as a result of doing a good deed, you should consider the misery a holy state, and not interfere.02br
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00If someone is miserable as the result of bad luck, you should pity them.02br
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00If someone is miserable as
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0Thank you very much.02br
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00I understood everything except the following line :02br
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01b00The last part means that a person who would cricitise a criminal who was about to be executed lacks empathy, and others would not think well of them.02b02br
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01b00Could you explain this sentence?02b0-
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0 People who shout rude things at a person being hanged are people of low worth and poor behaviour.0-
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