How few our real wants and how vast our imaginary ones!

Johann Kaspar Lavater
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  2. Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you. - Ann Brashares

  3. I want, I don’t want. How can one live with such a heart? - Margaret Atwood

  4. To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted. - Dashiell Hammett

  5. But I don't want more things than I need, either. - Isabel Allende

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  2. Make this poor self grow less and less, Be Thou my life and aim ; Oh, make me daily, through Thy grace, More worthy of Thy name.

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