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• I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.

  Bill Ayers

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• There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

  Neil Gaiman

  Virginia, Ruins, Restaurants

  Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, Theodora Goss, Peter S. Beagle, Richard Parks (2013). “Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2006 Edition”, p.180, Wildside Press LLC

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• Merlin’s beard, Harry, you made me jump,” said Slughorn, stopping dead in his tracks and looking wary. “How did you get out of the castle?” “I think Filch must’ve forgotten to lock the doors,” said Harry cheerfully, and was delighted to see Slughorn scowl.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Doors, Track

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• If the love of surgery is a proof of a person's being adapted for it, then certainly I am fitted to he a surgeon; for thou can'st hardly conceive what a high degree of enjoyment I am from day to day experiencing in this bloody and butchering department of the healing art. I am more and more delighted with my profession.

  Joseph Lister

  Art, Healing, Degrees

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• As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Long, Calumny, Found

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.41

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• It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or a quotation of an Author, passes for a mighty argument.... This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted, have made them the sport of orators, poets, and men of wit.

  John Arbuthnot

  Sports, Men, Pieces

  George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”

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• I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying to future readers, and avoid making them.

  J. Robert Lennon

  Book, Annoyed, Assuming

  "How Writers Read (Vol. 3)". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. December 11, 2014.

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• I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Way, Should, Unsure

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• Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Admiration, Feels, Discharge

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.121

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• I know the way, what I have to walk. I know the spiritual power, world-creating energy, what I have to lay its account with. There's no doubt: we come out into a better still world part and we will be delighted in unfailing fairnesses.

  Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

  Spiritual, Creating, Doubt

  "The Otherworld". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary,

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• There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.

  David Hume

  Mistake, Liars, Mean

  David Hume (2013). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.

  Jan Struther

  Children, Fun, Discovery

  Jan Struther (1940). “Mrs. Miniver”

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• When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.

  Plato

  Men, Musician, Virtue

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.87

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• Any thing that proves that it is not in the power of Kings and Princes by their great armies to have every thing their own way is of such good example that without any good will to the French one can not help being delighted by it, and you know I have a natural partiality to what some people call rebels.

  Charles James Fox

  Kings, Army, People

  "Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 125), 1997.

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• For he that is delighted by concord, And who abideth in the Law, Falleth not from Security.

  Gautama Buddha

  Law, Security

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• Happiness is a by-product. It is not a primary product of life. It is a thing which you suddenly realize you have because you're so delighted to be doing something which perhaps has nothing whatever to do with happiness.

  Robertson Davies

  Realizing, Primaries, Products

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.179, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Let people alone. Let them find their way. Let them find their level and you may sometimes be delighted and astonished at the extraordinary high level to which they'll rise if they're let alone.

  Robertson Davies

  People, Levels, May

  "Conversations with Robertson Davies". Book by Robertson Davies, "Gzowski on FM", 1989.

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• None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.

  Tacitus

  Sorrow, Shows, Greater

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• I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!

  Virginia Woolf

  Morning, Lying, Self

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”

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• I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

  Robertson Davies

  School, Sunday, Boys

  "Forgotten Dialogues". Essay by Robertson Davies, 1961.

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• I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

  Edward Abbey

  Technology, Eagles, Ravens

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.164, Macmillan

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• For God will deign to visit oft the dwellings of just men -- delighted, and with frequent intercourse -- thither will send his winged messengers on errants of supernal grace.

  John Milton

  Men, Dwelling, Grace

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.62

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• There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted; yet the belief, in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success.

  Leigh Hunt

  Beauty, Beautiful, Medicine

  Leigh Hunt (1834). “Leigh Hunt's London Journal”, p.1

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• Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Lying, Evil

  John Dryden (1750). “Select Essays on the Belles Lettres”, p.314

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• Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Country, Couple, Gay

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