Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Desire
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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
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REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.
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REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
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aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.
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