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If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness. ↗

— Paul Harris

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I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing. ↗

— Herodotus

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It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings. ↗

— Qin Shi Huangdi

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And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

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It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck. ↗

— Graham Greene

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Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business. ↗

— Carlos Alazraqui

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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ↗

— Aristotle

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