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Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. ↗

— Red Skelton

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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. ↗

— Adam Smith

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I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction? ↗

— Arthur Smith

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Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

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Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. ↗