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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 h...
Blaise Pascal
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Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
Adolf Hitler
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Andreu Guarneri
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We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt Water.
Andrew Wihtol
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War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
John McCain
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To be pleased with one`s limits is a wretched state.
Andy Guenthard
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This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
Andrew Corty
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This dance was the dance of death. The clowns danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness.
Angela Carter
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These wretched babies don`t come until they are ready.
Alberto Vilar
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The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
Akira Takei
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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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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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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Alvina Tan
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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!
Alvina Tan
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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!
Alvina Tan
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Alton Greene
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Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
Alle Fister
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Most wretched men are cradled to poetry by wrong: they learn in suffering what they teach in song
Angela Bono
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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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It is here that the masses that Frantz Fanon correctly called the wretched of the earth turn against one another not in rage, but in despair.
Andrew Beard
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He has selected nominees from the Taliban wing of American politics, appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing and chosen Cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection.
Brian Nelson
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Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.
Andrea Dziewior
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Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be n...
Aristotle
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Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
Homer
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
Titus Maccius Plautus
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Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
Anthony Burgess
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To be pleased with one`s limits is a wretched state.
Adam Acone
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I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.
Virgil
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A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.
William Shakespeare
