"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so……" — Thomas Carlyle

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• Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
• There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own… — James A. Baldwin
• Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. — Josh Billings
• I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating. — Ray Bradbury
• I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do. — A. S. Byatt
• The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would… — Albert Camus
• Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. — Albert Camus
• After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill… — Albert Camus
• I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom… — Donald Cargill
• ...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in… — Seraphim of Sarov
• We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none… — John Galsworthy

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