Fain
Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
Satisfied; contented; also, constrained.
With joy; gladly; -- with wold.
To be glad ; to wish or desire.
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Fain Quotations
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
Henry David Thoreau
I would fain grow old learning many things.
Plato
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
Henri Bergson
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Joseph Addison
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
Walter Raleigh
Fain Translations
fain in German is gern
fain in Swedish is tvungen
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