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dreadful

«Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Writing | Keywords: dreadful, idleness, labor
«To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.»
«The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.»
Author: Jules Renard (Writer) | Keywords: dreadful, injustice
«The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.»
«To sin against the earth is now the most dreadful thing, and to esteem the entrails of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth.»
«We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.»
«The human race is in such a dreadful state that no rational person can talk about it without resorting to seditious and obscene language»
«What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance»
«The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.»

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