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I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.
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I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
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I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
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I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
Source: Letter to John Adams (24 September 1774) -
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
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I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.
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I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.
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I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
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I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
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I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.
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I would live to study, and not study to live.
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I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all...
Source: Dandelion Mind -
I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.
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I would not fear nor wish my fate,
But boldly say each night,
To-morrow let my sun his beams display,
Or in clouds hide them; I have lived today. -
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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