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• There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Popularity, Please, Ifs

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.155, Shambhala Publications

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• Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place, indeed.

  Bill Bryson

  Dark, Night, Light

  "At Bryson's House, 'Home' Is Where The History Is". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. October 5, 2010.

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• A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.

  Russell Baker

  Father, Writing, Exercise

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• There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves when it was happening: there is a pleasant panoramic sense of what it all was and how it all had to be. Why, if we are not vain or snobbish, need we desire that it should have been different? The better things we missed may yet be enjoyed or attained by someone else somewhere: why isn't that just as good? And there is no regret, either, in the sense of wishing the past to return, or missing it: it is quite real enough as it is, there at its own date and place.

  George Santayana

  Regret, Real, Past

  "The Letters of George Santayana".

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• When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it.

  John Lennon

  Suicide, Drinking, Believe

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• I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

  Denis Norden

  Writing, People, Challenges

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• To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

  Margaret Fuller

  Writing, Hours, Scene

  Margaret Fuller (1860). “At Home and Abroad, Or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe”, p.8

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• Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.

  Robertson Davies

  Men, Looks, Life Is

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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• Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.

  Ray Floyd

  Golf, Games, Meant To Be

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• You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.

  Bob Newhart

  Clean, Resorts, Shock

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• I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.

  Kevin Keegan

  Taken, Fulham, Term

  "Keggy: I wish I'd turned England job down". www.mirror.co.uk. May 5, 2011.

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• Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Romance, Alcohol, Should

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• Like grain in a time of famine, the immense resources which the nation does in fact possess go not to the child in the greatest need but to the children of the highest bidder-the child of parents who, more frequently than not, have also enjoyed the same abundance when they were schoolchildren.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Money, Children, Parent

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.97, Broadway Books

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• Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.

  Uta Hagen

  Country, Months

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• "Take my own father! You know what he said in his last moments? On his deathbed, he defied me to name a man who had enjoyed a better life. In spite of the dreadful pain, his face radiated happiness," said Mother, nodding her head comfortably. "Happiness drives out pain, as fire burns out fire."

  Mary Lavin

  Happiness, Mother, Pain

  Mary Lavin (1970). “Happiness, and other stories”, Constable & Company Limited

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• Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first day they give pleasure to the owner, but in all the rest to the others: what belongs to another rejoices doubly, because it is without the risk of going stale and with the satisfaction of freshness. . . the possession of things not only diminishes their enjoyment, but augments their annoyance, whether shared or not shared.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Giving, Risk, Delight

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• I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Suicide

  Mark Twain (1924). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.175, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.

  John Tuzo Wilson

  Science, Scientist, Enjoy

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• One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate.

  John Steinbeck

  Hate, Work, Men

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• When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mean, Journey, Long

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.41, Routledge

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• The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.

  Moss Hart

  Theatre, Sadism, Kind

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

  Nancy Reagan

  Careers

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• For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

  Harry Browne

  Liberty, Threat, Security

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• A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living in a pensione on an allowance of £40 a month, which was princely. I did a lot of work and enjoyed myself immensely.

  James Fenton

  Italian, Happy Times, Interesting

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• So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

  Jackson Browne

  Couple, Party, Years

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