Quote#Kindness
Their cause I plead,—plead it in heart and mind
Quote byDavid Garrick · 1717–1779
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Prologue on Quitting the Stage in 1776. Compare: "I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader..
English (original)
Their cause I plead,—plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.
— David Garrick
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