#delightful

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. ↗

— Robert Hall

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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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Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful. ↗

— Frederick Locker-Lampson

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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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There is always a delightful sense of movement, vibration and life. ↗

— Theodore Robinson

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To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others. ↗

— Loretta Young

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Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

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