Delightful Things

Few things are more

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Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. Doug Larson

Human life is so

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Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable woe the most delightful thing possible, the mind instinctively turns where it can get rest, and cheer and sunshine. And the friend who can bring to it the largest portion of these is, … Read more

Mine ain’t a selfish

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Mine ain’t a selfish affection, you know, said Mr. Toots, in the confidence engendered by his having been a witness of the Captain’s tenderness. It’s the sort of thing with me, Captain Gills, that if I could be run over – or – or trampled upon – or – or thrown off a very high … Read more

There shall be poets!

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There shall be poets! When woman’s unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man–hitherto detestable–having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we shall take them, … Read more