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"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."

Priestley, J. B. on age and aging    Share

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"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning..."

Priestley, J. B. on the future
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"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is happiness."

Priestley, J. B. on parents and parenting    Share

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"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"

Priestley, J. B. on seasons    Share

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"Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats."

Priestley, J. B. on tea    Share

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"Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."

Priestley, J. B. on vision    Share

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"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going."

Priestley, J. B. on youth    Share

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