#wretched

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. ↗

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea. ↗

— John Podhoretz

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

— Andrew Carnegie

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Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched. ↗

— Virgil

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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are! ↗