#miser

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Misery is a match that never goes out. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music? ↗

— John Cusack

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The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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