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"For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified."
"I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just."
"I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had."
"Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects."
"I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible."
"Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin)."
"He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly"
"Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I could just not wake up tomorrow."
"I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping."
"I have no wish to take life, not even human life"
"Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop."
"That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition."
"It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream."
"'Rome' was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons 'cause I would have loved to continue watching it."
"[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures."
"I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly."
"Peace with all the world, is my sincere wish."
"Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them."
"I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodated to them, as a due regard for the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit."
"Le de s ir de la prie' re est de j a' une prie' re. The wish for prayer is already a prayer."
