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hanker after

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Take full account of what excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. Marcus Aurelius

It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women. Agatha Christie

I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks. Steffi Graf

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it. And besides, I have lived with liars so long that I have lost the tune, & a fact jars upon me like a discord. Mark Twain

Two hats, we grant, may be better than one; yet is one enough at a time. It is so with the head. It should be sole and self-relying. We like to wear ours in single blessedness on our own shoulders, and not let it hanker after a place on other people's. Samuel Laman Blanchard

That is with difficulty preserved which all hanker after. Latin Proverb

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