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  • i now know it is better to not expect too much. but i find the dreaming of expectating so addictive its hard to control. i then end up long term misable for it, though it makes me feel good for a short while. its like chocolate and lots of it, too much is just not good even though feels nice for short while.

    [Help] Most Recent Posts 2009

  • De ghost ob de white man dat I kilt hants me all de time, wharebber I go, an I is a misable man.

    The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond, Early recollections Vivid portrayal of Amusing Scenes Robert Arnold

  • Terible 3 whoever the misable cusses was. father sed that old mother Moulton was moar pertection than 5 pistols and 2 bull dogs and he wood pity enny

    Brite and Fair Worth Brehm 1899

  • Keene and Cele and Georgie following along all bawling. she got out in the entry jest as he was going to put me out of the front door and she grabed me away from him and said you misable cowardly retch to treat a boy that way. he said i whisled and she said he dident and you knew it only you dident dass take ennyone else.

    The Real Diary of a Real Boy 1899

  • "Gentlemen, I wish the money was there, for I ain't got no disposition to throw anything in the way of a fair, open, out-and-out investigation o 'this misable business; but, alas, the money ain't there; you k'n send and see, if you want to."

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

  • "Gentlemen, I wish the money was there, for I ain't got no disposition to throw anything in the way of a fair, open, out-and-out investigation o 'this misable business; but, alas, the money ain't there; you k'n send and see, if you want to."

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 26 to 30 Mark Twain 1872

  • "Gentlemen, I wish the money was there, for I ain't got no disposition to throw anything in the way of a fair, open, out-and-out investigation o 'this misable business; but, alas, the money ain't there; you k'n send and see, if you want to."

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872

  • The stock set an intraday high of 399.93 around 1 pm -- just a misable 7 cents below 400.

    unknown title 2011

  • Representatives in Washington, while good people they are have been misable failures when it comes to the peoples business.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • This loser deserves to be tortured the rest of his misable life.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

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