| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 42550 |
| QUOTATION: | The martyr sacrifices herself (himself in a few instances) entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for she (or he) makes the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), British nurse. Letter, c. 1867, to the scholar Benjamin Jowett. Forever Yours, Florence Nightingale: Selected Letters, ch. 4 (1989). |
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