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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."

"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."

"I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below."

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

"Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss."

"So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong."

"Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment."
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"He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man."

"Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman."
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