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

Matt Leblanc
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A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith
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And it is doubtless our paramount duty, in every state of society, to alleviate the pressure of the purely evil part of this distribution, as much as possible, and, by all the means we can devise, secure the lower links in the chain of society from dragging in dishonor and wretchedness.

William Herschel
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