“ Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
“ The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
“ The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read. ”
- Hannah More- Copy
“ There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
“ In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered. ”
- Aime Cesaire- Copy
“ To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back. ”
- Tom Brown- Copy
“ If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains. ”
- William Penn- Copy
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