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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ↗

— Voltaire

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Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ↗

— George Santayana

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The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals. ↗

— Edward Blake

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Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

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