#ratified

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. ↗

— Mark Twain

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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another! ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

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