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"text": "[…] the Authors having chosen for their Heroes Persons who were so nearly related to the People for whom they wrote. Achilles was a Greek, and Aeneas the remote Founder of Rome. By this Means their Countrymen (whom they principally proposed to themselves for their Readers) were particularly attentive to all the Parts of their Story, and sympathized with their Heroes in all their Adventures.",
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"ref": "1919, Saki, “The Threat”, in The Toys of Peace and Other Papers, London: John Lane, page 150:",
"text": "“Whether one sympathises with the agitation for female suffrage or not one has to admit that its promoters showed tireless energy and considerable enterprise in devising and putting into action new methods for accomplishing their ends. […]”",
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"ref": "1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter 9, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part II, page 171:",
"text": "[…] naturally the British aristocracy sympathized with the Confederacy, as one aristocrat with another, against a race of dollar lovers like the Yankees.",
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"ref": "1953, Saul Bellow, chapter 3, in The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking Press, →OCLC, pages 41-42:",
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"text": "President Obama in a speech this past week said that we should solve the nation's bee problem. Oh, God, we elected a guy who sympathizes with bees?",
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"text": "[…] the Authors having chosen for their Heroes Persons who were so nearly related to the People for whom they wrote. Achilles was a Greek, and Aeneas the remote Founder of Rome. By this Means their Countrymen (whom they principally proposed to themselves for their Readers) were particularly attentive to all the Parts of their Story, and sympathized with their Heroes in all their Adventures.",
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"ref": "1919, Saki, “The Threat”, in The Toys of Peace and Other Papers, London: John Lane, page 150:",
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"ref": "1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter 9, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part II, page 171:",
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"ref": "1953, Saul Bellow, chapter 3, in The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking Press, →OCLC, pages 41-42:",
"text": "He’d go to […] Soviet Russia—now giving us the whole story, that he sympathized with the Reds and admired Lenin […]",
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"ref": "2014, Norm Macdonald Live, season 2, episode 9, spoken by Norm Macdonald:",
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"ref": "1995, Rohinton Mistry, chapter 3, in A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, page 133:",
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"text": "Then personal appearance sympathised with mental deterioration: he acquired a slouching gait and ignoble look; his naturally reserved disposition was exaggerated into an almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness […]",
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