That though our sympathy with sorrow is generally a more lively sensation than our sympathy with joy, it commonly falls much more short of the violence of what is naturally felt by the person principally concerned

Vernon L. Smith ()
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Chapter Chapter 12 in Adam Smith’s Theory of Society, 2025, pp 81-92 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Our sympathy with sorrow…has been more taken notice of than our sympathy with joy.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-68494-4_12

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