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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. ↗

— Aeschylus

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

— Lucius Accius

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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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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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What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. ↗

— Georges Bizet

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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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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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