#gratify

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ↗

— Mark Twain

#do the right thing #gratify #people #rest #right

This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late. ↗

— Jack Vance

#coming #credit #done #flattery #getting

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. ↗

— Robert Walpole

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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#biology #each #efforts #enough #evolutionary

It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings. ↗

— Ann Beattie

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In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it. ↗

— Derek Bailey

#fact #gratifying #in fact #me #method

What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He's a loser—that’s why he's number two. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

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Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy. ↗

— Genie Francis

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The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#country #culture #english #find #french