I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. Mark Twain
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest. C. S. Lewis
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. Samuel Johnson
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. Samuel Johnson
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. Isaac D'Israeli
