1. "Woe is forerun with woe."
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William Shakespeare, Richard II
2. "woe of unnumbered generations"
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Jack London, The Call of the Wild
3. "and then woe is you, Pauly. Woe to the max."
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Stephen King, Misery
4. "this fails—then woe to Europe!"
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Tom Reiss, The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
5. "There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness."
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Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or
6. "Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall."
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Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or
7. "Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye"
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Stephen King, Insomnia
8. "It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists."
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Quote by Christopher Paolini
9. "woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil."
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John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
10. "Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger;"
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Fulton J. Sheen, The Cross and the Beatitudes