"It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle"

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Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures.

— Henry James