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«When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.»
«When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.»
«People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.»
Author: Edward R. Murrow (Journalist) | About: Art | Keywords: wished
«The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own»
«There are some of his sayings which show him to have been a devout Jew, others that he wished to destroy Judaism, others showing that he held all people except the Jews in contempt and that the wished to save no others, others showing that he wished»
«Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?»
«The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.»
Author: Seneca | About: Adversity | Keywords: admired, belong, belong to, wished
«The crow wished everything was black, the owl, that every thing was white.»

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