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«Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping-or attaches the name of St. Patrick to the day of the year that bartenders fear most.»
Author: Jon Anderson
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attaches, AT ST, bartender, bartenders, Christmas, day of the year, excess, frenzy, good idea, last-minute, last name, Patrick, shopping, St Patrick, such as, trait, unfortunate, wretched
«War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization»
«When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near»
«What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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by and by, creatures, firm, get in, lovelier, Others The, shrivelled, to each other, uglier, wretched
«To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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limits, pleased, wretched
«Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you! Fool, what have you done? Your wife has lost nothing by the operation»
«We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Religion
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inadequacies, inadequacy, on the side, opposed, religions, sermons, sublimity, wretched
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