#delightful

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before. ↗

— James Taylor

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Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight. ↗

— Richard de Bury

#delightful #reading #love

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. ↗

— Georges Bataille

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We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. ↗

— Lord Byron

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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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Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard. ↗

— Hugh Miller

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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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