"Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when……" — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
"Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love."
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- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
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- Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
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