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sweetness and light

Noun

Meaning

sweetness and light (uncountable)

(idiomatic, often in the negative or ironic) That which is good, pleasant, pure, etc.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light. Hedda Hopper

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. Jonathan Swift

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light. Matthew Arnold

Everything, as you well know... cannot always be sweetness and light. Kate DiCamillo

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. Matthew Arnold

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. He who works for sweetness and light, works to make reason and the will of God prevail. Matthew Arnold

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