"Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself."

--

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#Expectations Quotes #Anticipation Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets”
“I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect,' when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.”
“I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.”
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”

Source : Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4945, e-artnow
“Watch Darren Daulton use his mitt like a glove.”
“I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.”
“In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.”
“Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all. --Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie”

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