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gratified

«It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us»
«The most discouraging feature of the mania for book-collecting is, that it grows by what it feeds on, and becomes the more insatiable the more it is gratified.»
«If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole cycle already described will repeat itself with this new centre. Now the person will feel keenl»
«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.»
«We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.»
«We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.»
Author: Aesop (Author, Fabulist) | Keywords: gratified, gratifies, sorry
«You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.»