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"Crave" Quotes from Famous Books

... only to destroy error as she gradually advances and increases enlightenment. And thus, far from becoming bankrupt, in her march which nothing stops, she remains the only possible truth for well-balanced and healthy minds. As for those whom she does not satisfy, who crave for immediate and universal knowledge, they have the resource of seeking refuge in no matter what religious hypothesis, provided, if they wish to appear in the right, that they build their fancy upon acquired ...

— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

... day those same red lips will humbly, tremblingly crave my pardon for what they utter now; and then, Edna Earl, I shall take my revenge, and you will look back to this night and realize the full force of ...

— St. Elmo • Augusta J. Evans

... honor to my sex and one of the most interesting women of my generation. My family used to quote it to me to tease me, on all occasions, but for years it was one of my highest ambitions to become what he had prophesied. It is something else that I crave now. ...

— Mary Ware's Promised Land • Annie Fellows Johnston

... said Custance, with that strange gentleness which seemed so unlike her old bright, wilful self. "Leave me learn that lesson ere I crave ...

— The White Rose of Langley - A Story of the Olden Time • Emily Sarah Holt

... a lover as Napoleon was an emperor: nobody forced the crown upon him, he took it and crowned himself with his own hand. If my crown happens to be a thorny one, whom can I accuse? Did not my brow crave it? ...

— Gerfaut, Complete • Charles de Bernard

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