#wretched

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. ↗

— Elizabeth II

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When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near. ↗

— Samuel Hoffenstein

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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

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Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. ↗

— Fridtjof Nansen

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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. ↗

— Lucius Accius

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

— Georges Bizet

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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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