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“Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.” William Shakespeare, Richard II
“What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
“As is the case with all good-hearted people, misfortune had eradicated his bitterness.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Anyhow there was no bitterness in her; none of that sense of moral virtue which is so repulsive in good women. She enjoyed practically everything.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding—certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so...” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Mrs d'Urberville was not the first mother compelled to love her offspring resentfully, and to be bitterly fond.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man’s heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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