The ever-recurring law of necessity soon teaches a man to do what he does not like, so as to avert evils which he would dislike still more... this foresight, well or ill used, is the source of all the wisdom or the wretchedness of mankind.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: wisdom necessity wretchedness
Wretched are those preoccupied with insulting, belittling and discrediting others.
Wayne Gerard TrotmanTags: insults insults-and-slander wretchedness belittlement discreditation
No, no," cried Marianne, "misery such as mine has no pride. I care not who knows that I am wretched. The triumph of seeing me so may be open to all the world. Elinor, Elinor, they who suffer little may be proud and independent as they like-may resist insult, or return mortification-but I cannot. I must feel-I must be wretched-and they are welcome to enjoy the consciousness of it that can.
Jane AustenTags: wretchedness
His shoes looked too large; his sleeve looked too long; his hair looked too limp; his features looked too mean; his exposed throat looked as if a halter would have done it good.
Charles DickensTags: humorous halter wretchedness
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