#earnest

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It would be terribly boring to be earnest.


Adrien Brody


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Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.


Richard Francis Burton


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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.


Annie Dillard


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I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.


William Lloyd Garrison


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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.


Walter Bagehot


#believers #conscience #earnest #even #judgment

By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.


Emilio Estevez


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The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.


Kim Cattrall


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Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.


America Ferrera


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I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.


Claire Danes


#am #because #certified #did #earnest

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.


Samuel Johnson


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