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"Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight."
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"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."

"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"

"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."

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

"The 'relative' delights the mind (manoranjan), the 'real' delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan)."

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