#wretch

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read. ↗

— Hannah More

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Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me. ↗

— Franz Schubert

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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. ↗

— Aeschylus

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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. ↗

— Georges Bizet

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I hate this wretched willow soul of mine, patiently enduring, plaited or twisted by other hands. ↗

— Karin Boye

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There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

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I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness. ↗

— Beth Henley

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements. ↗

— William Bligh

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