Misery
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A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.
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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
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He’s simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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Little is needed to make a wise man happy but nothing can content a fool . That is why nearly all men are miserable.
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For in all adversity of fortune, the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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You have to take money where you find it, from the poor Ok. They don’t have much money but there are a lot of them.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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There is nothing more callous, if you are miserable, than the happiness of others.
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There are still parts of Wales where the only concession to gaiety is a striped shroud.
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Many a good whine comes from sour grapes.