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Misery

«The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.»
«Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.»
Author: Joanna Field | About: Happiness, Memory, Misery
«Misery is almost always the result of thinking.»
Author: Joseph Joubert (Essayist) | About: Misery | Keywords: Almost always, misery
«So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.»
Author: Lucy Parsons | About: Anarchy, Misery, Police
«Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.»
Author: Matt LeBlanc (Actor, Model) | About: Misery | Keywords: manifold, multiform
«Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.»
«Misery is when grown-ups don't realize how miserable kids can feel.»
Author: Suzanne Heller | About: Misery | Keywords: grown
«Misery is when you make your bed and then your mother tells you it's the day she's changing the sheets.»
Author: Suzanne Heller | About: Misery | Keywords: sheets
«Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Envy, Misery, Pride | Keywords: advantages, delicate
«Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.»

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