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A person who talks when you WISH him to listen.	Ambrose Bierce
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People WISH to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.	Bertrand Russell
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but WISH we didn’t.	Erica Jong
All WISH to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.	Juvenal
Change yourself if you WISH to change the world.	The Mother
Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not WISH to hear it.	Samuel Butler
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that WISH.	Sophocles
Happy the man, whose WISH and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Pope Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home.	William Wordsworth
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't WISH people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.	Bertrand Russell
I WISH courtesy could invent some custom of entertainment other than wine.	William Shakespeare
I WISH I hadn’t broke that dish, I WISH I was a moviestar, I WISH a lot of things, I WISH That life was like the movies are.	A.P. Herbert
'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.'	J. R. R. Tolkien
If any man WISH to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If we WISH to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare, if we WISH to see the insignificance of human learning, we must study his commentators.	William Hazlitt
If you cannot mould yourself as you would WISH, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?	Thomas A. Kempis