#suffers

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds. ↗

— Hesiod

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Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy. ↗

— E. W. Howe

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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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Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by. ↗

— George Meredith

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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers. ↗

— Al Pacino

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I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. ↗

— William Penn

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