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It is hard to hear of suffering anywhere without longing to relieve it.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “It is hard to hear of suffering anywhere without longing to relieve it.”
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Sumner expresses a universal human sentiment about the desire to alleviate suffering.
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