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The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

Misery is a communicable disease.

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Misery is a match that never goes out.