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Wretched Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise
- Wretched un-idea'd girls.
- The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
- To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.
- To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited…
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- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
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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
- Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. — Aeschylus
- One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. — Jean de la Bruyere
- Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. — Anthony Burgess
- Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of… — William S. Burroughs