misfortunes
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Practical advice from one Charles Dickens in “Sketches by Boz”: “Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025
Despite all of her misfortunes, self-inflicted or otherwise, Allen held her head high, beating the notoriously brutal British tabloids at their own game — or, at the very least, becoming a formative opponent.
From Salon • Oct. 29, 2025
"To differing degrees the social services and police's responses to the situation that they found themselves in was that they were the authoresses of their own misfortunes," he said.
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025
Still, Ms. Bofill rarely expressed regret and tried to be lighthearted in talking about her misfortunes in interviews.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024
Later, Myrtilus was killed by Pelops, cursing him as he died, and some said that this was the cause of the misfortunes that afterward followed the family.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
