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• Loan someone a sympathetic ear.
• There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.
• Homer: How dare you talk about Ned Flanders like that.
  He's a wonderful, kind, caring man -- maybe even more so than me....
• Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.
  -- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- The Progress of Poesy, III, 1, Line 12...
• The social smile, the sympathetic tear.
  -- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- Education and Government, line 37...
• To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.
  -- Joseph Glanvill, 1661...
• Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontie
  Katie Hafner & John Markoff Simon & Schuster 1991 ISBN 0-671-68322-5 This book gathers narratives about the careers of three notorious crackers into a clear-eyed but sympathetic portrait of hackerdom's dark side....
• SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.
  In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic....
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