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yearned

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of Yearn

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person. Ginger Rogers

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability? Margaret Atwood

All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. André Breton

Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for. Douglas Adams

For the first time I understood the haunting beauty of the song. It was the song of a killer who longed to die. It was the song of justice yearned for but not yet done. Orson Scott Card

This script, it seems to me, is the work of professionals who yearned to be as charming as inspired amateurs can sometimes be. Kurt Vonnegut

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