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Misery travels free through the whole world!
[Ger., Frei geht das Ungluck durch die ganze Erde!]
Misery travels free through the whole world!
[Ger., Frei geht das Ungluck durch die ganze Erde!]
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later.
Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later.
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage read more
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he read more
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
No, misery makes sport to mock itself.
No, misery makes sport to mock itself.
Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.
Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.
