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"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."
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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."

"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes."

"Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics."

"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."

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

"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."
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"Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him."

"We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."

"Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose."
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