#miser

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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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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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice. ↗

— Victor Cousin

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When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

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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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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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