#wretched

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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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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I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. ↗

— John Major

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What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them. ↗

— Augusto Roa Bastos

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

— Elizabeth II

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

— Lucius Accius

#fame #his #indeed #makes #man

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

— Karin Boye

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