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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. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. ↗

— Nahum Tate

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

— Elizabeth II

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Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark. ↗

— Empedocles

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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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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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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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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 him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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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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The ever-recurring law of necessity soon teaches a man to do what he does not like, so as to avert evils which he would dislike still more... this foresight, well or ill used, is the source of all the wisdom or the wretchedness of mankind. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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