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We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.
Marilyn Hacker
We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television.
Roma Downey
We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.
Edward Burnett Tylor
Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.
Leopold Trepper
Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
R. L. Stine
What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I've received.
Trey Anastasio
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
Thomas Aquinas
When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.
Shmuel Y. Agnon
When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants.
Jupiter Hammon
When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.
John Foxe
You never know how you're going to be received, after all this time. The initial response we had was just overwhelming, particularly that tour of the States.
Roger Andrew Taylor
You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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