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Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures