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“If he had to wish, what would he wish for, he asked himself. What was there to wish for... a wish asked for the unattainable. The impossible.”
“I think all wishes are the same, really," she continued. "Whether they ask for this, that, or the other, what they are really asking for is happiness.”
“He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.”
“The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its po...”
“Great minds have purposes others have wishes. ”
“Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.”
“Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.”
“One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.”
“As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.”
“the whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want.”
“You stop believing in wishes when the only one you want to make can never come true.”
“Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes, the impulse never quite leaves you”
“I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgemental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people.”
