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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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Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God. ↗

— Johann Arndt

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

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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. ↗