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  • This pretty ring† I will give it to the first man who tells me he would like to be a woman. It is delightful to be a woman; but every man thanks the Lord devoutly that he isn't one.

    -Iron
      The Story of an African Farm, ch.17,'Lyndall'.

  • He has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

    - Rev Sydney Smith
    Of Lord Macaulay. Quoted in Lady Holland Memoir (1855), vol.1. ch.11.

  • When will the world know that peace and propagation are the two most delightful things in it?

    - Horace, 4th Earl of Orford Walpole
      Letter to Sir Horace Mann,7 Jul. In The Correspondence of HoraceWalpole (Yale edition,1937^8).

  • : I suppose society is wonderfully delightful! :To be in it is merelya bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

    - Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
    GERALDLORD ILLINGWORTH1893  AWoman of No Importance, act 3.

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