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They minimize the sufferings of others, because they do not have experience of them, and they magnify their own virtues that they may gain confidence in themselves.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “They minimize the sufferings of others, because they do not have experience of them, and they magnify their own virtues…”
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Laski points out the tendency of people to minimize others' suffering while inflating their own virtues.
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