Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?

P.G. Wodehouse

Mots clés humor misfortune sombre-mood



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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

Dorothy Parker

Mots clés lament misfortune irritation pity plaintiveness



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We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

Marjane Satrapi

Mots clés laughter misfortune



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Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

Mots clés purpose misfortune



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Misfortune does not help us to believe.

Alexandre Dumas

Mots clés misfortune



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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

William Faulkner

Mots clés time misfortune



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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Solon

Mots clés adversity misfortune



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Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

P.G. Wodehouse

Mots clés humor fate unfairness misfortune cheating top-8



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Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

Bernard Beckett

Mots clés fear chance misfortune cause-and-effect fault-finding finger-pointing



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He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.

P.G. Wodehouse

Mots clés humor life melancholy misfortune



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