#wretch

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives. ↗

— David Sedaris

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It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch. ↗

— David Simon

#hero #i #man #many #newspaperman

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#being rich #live #people #rich #rich people

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

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Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched. ↗

— Tacitus

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. ↗

— Nahum Tate

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Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#course #delights #hatred #his #kills

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. ↗

— John Major

#argument #biggest #biggest mistake #both #both sides

Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#wretch #love