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• Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance along the way is a sweet reminder that, as he puts it, 'anything can happen in a garden.' In prose that balances candor with perfect courtesy, he charms us with the message that keeping a garden with a beloved companion, this most ephemeral of all the arts, can bring us the most enduring joys and pleasures.

  Philip Gambone

  Lonely, Sweet, Art

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• Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Relief, Littles

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• To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Youth, Young, Comfortable

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• Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.

  Samuel Johnson

  Strong, Writing, Attention

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Lives of the English Poets”, p.115

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• Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights up a situation. Wit suggests the delicate but delightful play of a rapier in the hands of a master.

  Arthur Lynch

  Light, Hands, Essence

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• Beauty is a delightful prejudice.

  Theocritus

  Beauty, Prejudice

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• We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

  John Tillotson

  Heart, Pleasure, Sweetness

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• Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

  John Tillotson

  Contentment, Virtue, Piety

  John Tillotson (1720). “Works”, p.66

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• It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers.

  Marjorie Hillis

  People, Facts, Makers

  Marjorie Hillis (2011). “Orchids On Your Budget: Or Live Smartly on What You Have”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• November at its best - with a sort of delightful menace in the air.

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Air, November, Menace

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• Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Opposites, Ought

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• Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Order, Prejudice, Boundaries

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• There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Play, Heaven

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• We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

  J. G. Holland

  Future, Inspire, Made

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• Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.

  Lynn Coady

  Beautiful, Art, Tragic

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• Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Practice, Impossible, Theory

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• There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Marriage, Good Marriage

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• Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

  Anthony de Mello

  Ambition, Greed, Life Is

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.78, Image

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• When the heart is filled with love everything seems beautiful & delightful to us.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Beautiful, Heart, Baha

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