Date: 1751, 1777
"The roughness and harshness of these emotions disturb and displease us: We suffer by contagion and sympathy; nor can we remain indifferent spectators, even though certain, that no pernicious consequences would ever follow from such angry passions."
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Date: 1751, 1777
"Who sees not that vengeance, from the force alone of passion, may be so eagerly pursued, as to make us knowingly neglect every consideration of ease, interest, or safety; and, like some vindictive animals, infuse our very souls into the wounds we give an enemy?"
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Date: 1754, 1762
"By stronger contagion, the popular affections were communicated from breast to breast, in this place of general rendezvous and society."
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