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This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven. ↗

— Thomas More

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

— Jean de la Bruyere

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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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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. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

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

— Georges Bizet

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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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For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night. ↗

— Sophocles

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Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. ↗