Famous quotes containing the word wished:
“The factory was very fine;
He wished it all the modern speed.
Yet, after all, twas not divine,
That is to say, twas not a church.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“Im sure youve often wished there was an after-life. Of course I had, I told him. Everybody has that wish at times. But that had no more importance than wishing to be rich, or to swim very fast, or to have a better-shaped mouth.”
—Albert Camus (19131960)
“I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
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