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"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."
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"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"
"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."
"I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not."
"Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight."
"Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss."
"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."
"And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same."
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"Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us."
"Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see."
"It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?"
"One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge."
"So, in a Civil Service where smooth and sociable performance was more useful than an individualistic competence, Enderby went up the scale quickly, and was at the Commissioner level when Baley himself was nothing more than a C-5."
"There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum."
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