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«You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on / into the dustbin of history!»
«These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.»
«Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart»
«The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: pitiful, sodden
«The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.»
«There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | Keywords: believing, cynic, pitiful
«Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | About: Obedience | Keywords: cowardly, egotism, pitiful
«There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.»

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