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| I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others |
| Edmund Burke |
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| Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. |
| Plato |
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| Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes |
| Victor Hugo |
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| Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to |
| Paul Valery |
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| Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. |
| Dorothy Parker |
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| To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. |
| Honore de Balzac |
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