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Letter "F" » felicity
«Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else-felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance-is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.»
Author: Louis Nizer
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Preparation
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felicities, felicity, improvisational, satellite, satellites, The Be, thorough, trial
«Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.»
«Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
| Keywords:
felicity
«Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.»
«Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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attain, caprices, felicities, felicity, fortunate, heeded, heeds, satisfy
«Still to ourselves in every place consigned, / Our own felicity we make or find.»
«Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?»
«No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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felicity, indecencies, indecency, licentiousness, purified
«I have heard him assert, that a tavern chair was the throne of human felicity»
«Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.»
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