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

— Aeschylus

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

— Karin Boye

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The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is. ↗

— Ivor Novello

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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched. ↗

— Virgil

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Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched. ↗

— John Webster

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