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be delighted

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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love. Gottfried Leibniz

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard - even to vomiting - in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role. Robertson Davies

I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U. S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller. Terry Eagleton

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons. Harry Shearer

We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory. Muhammad Reza Pahlavi

Let people alone. Let them find their way. Let them find their level and you may sometimes be delighted and astonished at the extraordinary high level to which they'll rise if they're let alone. Robertson Davies

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