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Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

- Giacomo Casanova

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man`s candle by one`s own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.

- Agnus Berenato

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

- Alexander Cutler

The man who lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom `twere gross flattery to name a coward

- Arthur Brisbane