Quotes with long-sought

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  • Benjamin Disraeli I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Hermann Hesse I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Josh Billings I have lived in the world just long enough to look carefully the second time into those things that I am most certain of the first time.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Josh Billings I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Julius Caesar I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • William Shakespeare I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Blaise Pascal I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Groucho Marx I have no advice to give to young actors. To young, struggling actresses, my advice is to keep struggling. If you struggle long enough, you will never get in trouble and if you never get in trouble, you will never be much of an actress.
    Variety, June 1941
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Brooks Atkinson I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Ali Smith I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.
    Girl Meets Boy (2007) 140
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in goal is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Seth Godin I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
    Seth Godin
    American author and business executive (1960 - )
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  • Fred A. Allen I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Noël Coward I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
    Noël Coward
    British writer (1899 - 1973)
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  • Bette Midler I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.'' I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bruce Forsyth I met my darling wife Wilnelia in 1980 when we were on the judging panel for the Miss World contest at the Royal Albert Hall. With two ex-wives and five daughters, I thought I wouldn't be involved with anyone for a long time - if ever. Winnie was so gorgeous, my jaw dropped - and it's a big jaw to drop.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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