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Barbara Schapiro

"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."

Barbara Schapiro, American Author
Delight, Laughter
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"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."

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"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher
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"Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage."

Paul Engle, American Poet
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"Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment."

Ben Jonson, English Poet
Delight, Mind, Punishment, Vice
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."

Amos Bronson Alcott, American Educator
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"Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing."

Joe Shuster, Canadian Artist
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"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher
Delight, Statesman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not."

Henry Alford, English Clergyman
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"The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level."

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist
Delight, Merit, Thinking, World
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"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."

Walter Savage Landor, English Poet
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"Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing."

Austin Dobson, English Celebrity
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