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afterward

Adverb

Meaning

At a later or succeeding time.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. Pablo Picasso

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward. Amy Tan

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. Kurt Vonnegut

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless. Umberto Eco

Yourself first, others afterward. English Proverb

Fly that pleasure which pains afterward. English Proverb

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