#delight

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country. ↗

— Bram Stoker

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I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

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But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning. ↗

— Anna Neagle

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