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“So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me.”
Albert Einstein
“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
Oscar Wilde
“We cannot wish for that we know not.”
Voltaire
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.”
Erica Jong
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained”
C.S. Lewis
“It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
“Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.”
Kenneth Hildebrand
“He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.”
Douglas Adams
“Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe