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• The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

  Ivor Novello

  Average, Entertainment, Add

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• you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.

  Ilona Andrews

  Regret, Fighting, Dangerous World

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• Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing in eternal glory, and, in a word, our being brought into a state of all "fulness of blessing," both in this world and in the world to come, of all the good gifts that are in store for us, by promise hereof, through faith, beholding the reflection of their grace as though they were already present, we await the full enjoyment.

  Saint Basil

  Children, Father, Son

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• What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.

  Bobby Hull

  Sports, Team, Play

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• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Patterns, Recognition

  Dialogues (1954) (entry for 10 June 1943)

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• Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

  Robert Toombs

  Equality, Giving, Expansion

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.8

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• The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Boys, Careers, Essentials

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• Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

  John Ruskin

  People, Literature, Great Things

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• Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.

  Honore de Balzac

  Keys, Joy, Intellectual

  "The Wild Ass's Skin". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1831.

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• To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

  Jane Austen

  Half, Literature, States

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.438

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• All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

  Edmund Burke

  Commitment, Government, Political

  "On Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies," 22 Mar. 1775

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• What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Smile, Looks, Contempt

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• He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Sublime, Forgiving, Enemy

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• Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

  William Penn

  Spring, Soul, Lust

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

  Adam Smith

  Life, Success, People

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 11 (1776)

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• Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of society. Every civil right has for its foundation some natural right pre-existing in the individual, but to the enjoyment of which his individual power is not, in all cases, sufficiently competent. Of this kind are all those which relate to security and protection.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Rights, Individual Power

  Thomas Paine (2016). “The Rights of Man”, p.41, Xist Publishing

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• You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Passion

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• If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not be long before the art of fine cooking is viewed as the invention of a handful of snobs. . . . A whole aspect of living well, of civilization itself, is threatened with extinction.

  Benoite Groult

  Life, Art, Civilization

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• The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the same horse, but rather the conservation of the horse's enjoyment, suppleness and finesse during the performance, which calls for comparison with the finest ballet, or performance of an orchestra, or seeing a play by Racine, so moving is the sight of perfectly unisoned movements.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Horse, Art, Moving

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• Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.

  Daniel Boone

  Philosophy, Believe, Men

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.4, Applewood Books

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• How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!

  Tibullus

  Night, Long, Thee

  Tibullus, Gerard Van der Gucht (1720). “The Works of Tibullus: Containing His Four Books of Love Elegies”, p.199

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• The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

  Walter Benjamin

  Art, Criticism, Aversion

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

  Clarence Day

  Curiosity, Pausing, Facts

  Clarence Day (2017). “This Simian World”, p.25, Litres

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• There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.

  Charles Dickens

  Gay, Skeletons, Expectations

  Charles Dickens (1983). “Great Expectations”

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• It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!

  Max Beckmann

  Wonderful, Enormous, Again And Again

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