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Letter "T" » The Wish
«I write of the wish that comes true-for some reason, a terrifying concept.»
«Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.»
«?It is mysterious that the ambition should have come first - the wish to be a writer, to have that distinction, that fame - and that this ambition should have come long before I could think of anything to write about.?»
«There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.»
Author: Kin Hubbard
(Humorist, Writer)
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Curiosity
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desire to know, sorts, The Wish, various
«Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.»
«People act as though our mission were to secure the triumph of truth, whereas our sole mission is fight for it. The wish to be victorious is so natural that when it clothes itself in the desire for the triumph of truth, the two are often confused, an»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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act as, mission, The Wish, Truth The, victorious
«A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.»
«There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behaviour, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Joy
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behaviour, complexions, scatter, The Wish
«There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.»
«Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.»
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