#elicit

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. ↗

— George Meredith

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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty? ↗

— Edmund Spenser

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The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. ↗

— John Buchan

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Felicity laughs and takes on the tone of a fashionable lady. "Darling, the Bryn-Joneses have just done the most marvelous thing in their parlor with human blood. We simply must have ours done straightaway! ↗

— Libba Bray

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I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry. ↗

— Libba Bray

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Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#fortune #wealth #pleasure