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• There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Past, Magic Moments

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

  Ada Leverson

  Gambling, Suspense, World

  Ada Leverson (1907). “The Twelfth Hour”

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• In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures, by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing.

  John Tillotson

  Heart, Expectations, Desire

  John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.270

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• The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Girl, Laughter, Sound

  Thomas De Quincey (1853). “De Quincey's works”, p.85

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• Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Believe, Eye

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

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• The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of beauty. To gaze with rapture at the stars That in the skies are glowing; To see the gems of perfect dye That in the woods are growing, And more than sage astronomer, And more than learned florist, To read the glorious homilies Of Firmament and Forest.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Stars, Glowing, Sky

  John Godfrey Saxe (1866). “The Masquerade: and other poems”, p.25

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• To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.

  Edith Hamilton

  Beautiful, Greek, Gone

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem to be incapable of that abandon which is the requisite condition of social pleasure; and bent upon winning a tribute of admiration, or some hint which they can turn to the account of pen-craft, there is seldom in their company any of the delightful unconsciousness which harmonizes a circle.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Winning, Circles, Hints

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• "She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Want

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.326

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• Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in English. Mead has discovered an original and highly personal way to make herself an inhabitant both of the book and of George Eliot's imaginary city. Though I have read and taught the book these many years I find myself desiring to go back to it after reading Rebecca Mead's work.

  Harold Bloom

  Wise, Book, Reading

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• Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needsbe delightful and rejoicing.

  David Hume

  Eye, Light, Mind

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.15, tredition

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• Then amongst flowers and springs,
  Making delightful sport,
  Sat lovers without conflict, without flame

  Torquato Tasso

  Sports, Peace, Spring

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• Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Marriage, Girl, Falling In Love

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

  Rose Macaulay

  Giving, Interesting, Doubt

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• There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.

  Plato

  Integrity, Men, Hearing

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Hands, Together

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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• ... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation--the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Cities, Simplicity, Unions

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• As soon as one of my records goes on, it makes a vast portion of the public nervous. They get spooked by it. To some people who have ears to hear, it's a delightful, refreshing change. But to most of the public, it's a load of homemade-sounding nonsense.

  Nick Lowe

  People, Records, Ears

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

  John Milton

  Children, Book, Winning

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John, Charles Richard Sumner (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.468

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• Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Anomalies, Shirts, Charming

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 25 Illustrated Collections: 440+ Tales in One Volume – Ultimate Short Story Collection: Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldier’s Three, The Jungle Book, The Phantom ‘Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories, Land and Sea Tales…”, p.474, e-artnow

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• God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not chosen by God, and suddenly we find we have been calculating without God; He has not entered in as a living factor. The one thing that keeps us from the possibility of worrying is bringing God in as the greatest factor in all our calculations.

  Oswald Chambers

  Worry, Upset, Way

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.383, Discovery House

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• Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Lying, True Life, Biographies

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.243

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• Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Ideas, Light, Immortal Life

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.78

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• It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Kissing, Eyelashes, Tears

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.173

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• I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

  Anatole France

  Book, Reading, Easy

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.6, Anatole France

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