#miser

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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Never was a miser a brave soul. ↗

— George 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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I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not. ↗

— Damon Hill

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Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable. ↗

— James Hillman

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery. ↗

— Richard Hooker

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Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. ↗

— Woody Allen

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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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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