"By turns the nine delight to sing"
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"The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing."
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"[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons."
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"We had little or no emotion. We lacked the capacity to feel fear, to experience love, to enjoy the sensations of happiness and delight.The finest warriors are not only those who do not fear, but those who are without anger."
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"No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted."
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"We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others."
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