Misfortune Quotes
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Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.
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Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.
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In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.
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... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.
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.. I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the greatest well-springs of misfortune in the world.
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You are one of those obsessed demoniacal creatures who ought to be avoided at all costs; they bring misfortune into the lives of others; they ruin the lives of others. The real good people are humble and silent (like your Kitty is). But beware, God sees all vanity and pride and you cannot fool him.
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For marriage is the worst misfortune!
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I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.
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I wasn't raised to celebrate the misfortune of others.
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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
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...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.
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What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.
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In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
