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10 quotesOne seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
Lovers
Jean De La Bruyere
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
Favors
Robert Burns
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Loneliness
Thomas Carlyle
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Excellence
Isaac Disraeli
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These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
Pregnancy
Queen Elizabeth
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the giver of life, who gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
Uncategorised
Thomas Jefferson
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Compassion
Samuel Johnson
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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
Fame
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Crime and Criminals
Plato
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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
Friends and Friendship
Nahum Tate
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun