#delights

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. ↗

— Lactantius

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Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights. ↗

— Francois de Malherbe

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What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

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The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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Additionally, Adam’s room had an absolutely massive bed with a plump feather tick that she knew they would put to good use. “Shall we christen it now?” Adam whispered in her ear, his arms stealing around her from behind in spite of the footmen who were still busy bringing up their luggage. Skimming his lips over her cheek, he playfully caressed her nape in a way that never failed to drive her wild. “I could shoo them all out and lock the door. We wouldn’t even have to take off our clothes, I could just tumble you down and toss up your skirts. What do you say, wife, shall I tup you now, or would you rather wait until later? ↗

— Tracy Anne Warren

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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

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Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods. ↗

— Georg Brandes

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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked. ↗

— Ovid

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