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delighted
«Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
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History
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after death, and others, delighted, permitted, personally
«We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.»
«To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.»
«Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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Society
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bramble, brambles, delighted, eradicated, eradicating, lawn, roughness, smiling, smoothed, velvet, velvets, verdure
«Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.»
«When we encounter a natural style we are always surprised and delighted, for we thought to see an author and found a man»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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delighted, encounter, surprised
«I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of thegreatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and mostobvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsityof conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues,which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven,thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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at ease, conclusions, delighted, falsities, falsity, simplest
«The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions /an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Writers
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celebrated, delighted, Groves, In a Grove, melody, rivulet, scarcely, The Whisper