I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentl… - Leo Rosten

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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

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Leo Calvin Rosten (11 April 1908 – 19 February 1997) was an American teacher, academic and humorist best remembered for his stories about the night-school "prodigy" Hyman Kaplan and for The Joys of Yiddish (1968).

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It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

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