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1  No; you want a deliberate belief.
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2  Shows a complete want of judgment.
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3  They wanted no excuse for being there.
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4  Well, he wanted it, and wouldn't hear reason.
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5  I had no clear perception of what it was I really wanted.
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6  What they wanted to keep that body hanging about for I can't guess.
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7  Three carriers could have brought all that was wanted to set that steamboat afloat.
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8  I didn't want any more loitering in the shade, and I made haste towards the station.
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9  It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.
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10  He surely wanted nothing from the wilderness but space to breathe in and to push on through.
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11  'I don't want to know anything of the ceremonies used when approaching Mr. Kurtz,' I shouted.
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12  I have no opinion on that point, but I want you clearly to understand that there was nothing exactly profitable in these heads being there.
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13  My dear sir,' said the fellow, 'I don't want to be misunderstood, and especially by you, who will see Mr. Kurtz long before I can have that pleasure.
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14  I suppose Kurtz wanted an audience, because on a certain occasion, when encamped in the forest, they had talked all night, or more probably Kurtz had talked.
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15  I wanted to push on; but the manager looked grave, and told me the navigation up there was so dangerous that it would be advisable, the sun being very low already, to wait where we were till next morning.
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16  There were either no villages, or the people were hostile, or the director, who like the rest of us fed out of tins, with an occasional old he-goat thrown in, didn't want to stop the steamer for some more or less recondite reason.
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17  Their talk, however, was the talk of sordid buccaneers: it was reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage; there was not an atom of foresight or of serious intention in the whole batch of them, and they did not seem aware these things are wanted for the work of the world.
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