“ To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. ”
- Beverley Nichols- Copy
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“ Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable. ”
- William McIlvanney- Copy
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“ I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. ”
- Booker T. Washington- Copy
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“ How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we emulate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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“ It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant. ”
- Lucretius- Copy
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“ She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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