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Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.

- Matt LeBlanc

This dance was the dance of death. The clowns danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness.

- Angela Carter

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

- Adam Katz

If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.

- James Allen