have one's own way

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She said, "What is called melancholy is at bottom only a desire to have one's own way."

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That "A horse is neither better nor worse for his trappings" teaches us to look below the surface in forming our judgments, and then again there is the well-known and excellent warning that "One may take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink," a hint that one cannot always have one's own way, and that the co-operation of the other party in the arrangement is an essential point.

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Does anybody suppose it was just to be comfortable, and have one's own way?

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If you had seen her walk you would have felt her to tread the earth after a fashion suggesting that in a world where she had long since discovered that one couldn't have one's own way one could never tell what annoying aggression might take place, so that it was well, from hour to hour, to save what one could.

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She thought how nice it would be to have one's own way always, and not be obliged to ask mamma everything.

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