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- The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
- I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
- Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
- Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;
But like of each thing that in season grows. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Love's Labour Lost
- Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.
- Sir Hugh Walpole
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
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