#sir

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. ↗

— William Blake

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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. ↗

— William Blake

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I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian. ↗

— Rachel Blanchard

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The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

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I would endeavour to deserve my life, Sire. ↗

— Thomas Blood

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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. ↗

— Will Durant

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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

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I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. ↗

— George Eliot

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