Sometimes a man's make and disposition are such that his misery-machine is able to do nearly all the business.

Such a man goes through life almost ignorant of what happiness is.

Everything he touches, everything he does, brings a misfortune upon him.

You have seen such people?
To that kind of a person life is not an advantage, is it?
It is only a disaster.

Sometimes for an hour's happiness a man's machinery makes him pay years of misery.