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A trivial misfortune of our own troubles us more than a distant catastrophe to millions
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- Adam Smith Scottish moral philosopher and economist (1723 to 1790)
If he was to lose his little finger to-morrow, he would not sleep to-night; but provided he never saw them, he will snore with the most profound security over the ruin of a hundred millions of his brethren, and the destruction of that immense multitude seems plainly an object less interesting to him, than this paultry misfortune of his own.
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↗The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759; Dublin printing of 1777)gutenberg.org
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