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Letter "G" » gratifies
«It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us»
«Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.»
Author: Joseph Addison
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Dramatist,
Essayist,
Poet,
Statesman)
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Keywords:
agreeable,
curiosity,
fills,
gratifies,
it An,
possessed,
raises,
surprise,
uncommon
«Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Achievement,
Life,
Pleasure,
Success,
Wishes
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Keywords:
affords,
difficulties,
forming,
gratified,
gratifies,
one-step,
passing,
seeing,
surmount,
surmounted,
surmounting,
wishes
«We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.»
«If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
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Writer)
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Keywords:
benefits,
gratifies,
gratify,
insist,
instinct,
Let It Be,
procure,
procured,
procures,
procuring,
protect,
rationally,
shared,
soberly
«PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
brief,
cupidity,
disappoints,
gratifies,
held,
indifference,
material,
particular,
possession,
property,
rapacity,
The Object of,
The Passion
«Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
always,
astonish,
by rights,
Do,
gratifies,
gratify,
people,
rest,
right,
righted,
righting,
right a,
some,
this,
will
«Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
astonish,
Do,
Do the Right Thing,
gratifies,
gratify,
people,
rest,
right,
Right Thing,
some,
thing,
will
«True felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.»
«There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.»