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"War is delightful to those who have not experienced it." »Erasmus
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"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it." »Desiderius Erasmus
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"There is no place more delightful than home." »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful" »Frederick Locker-Lampson
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"There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful." »Samuel Johnson
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"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking." »George Eliot
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"Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful." »George Bernard Shaw
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"He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful." »Sydney Smith
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"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle." »Edna Ferber
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"It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world." »Oscar Wilde
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"Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock." »John Barrymore
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"Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right." »Donald Culross Peattie
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"Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful." »Margaret Mead
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"If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man." »John Milton
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"Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed." »Seneca
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"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful." »Charles Simmons
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"Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods." »Francis Quarles
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"Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun." »William Shakespeare
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