#pleased

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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me."


Joseph Addison


#away #cannot #charitable #epitaph #gave

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.


Eva Braun


#before #did #done #enclosed #end

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.


Paul Bremer


#coalition #exactly #fact #free #freed

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


#certain #certain age #child #delivers #earnestness

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.


Barry Humphries


#even #fact #hated #i #more

All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that.


Alex Morrison


#convinced #government #his #just #military

If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased.


Len G. Murray


#anyone #asked #complain #easily #ever

It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar.


Joanna Newsom


#am #different #expect #harp #i

It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.


Joanna Newsom


#bands #been #good #good band #i

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.


P. J. O'Rourke


#anything #better #could #damned #founded