“Pleasant, berries in the time of harvest;
Also pleasant, wheat upon the stalk.
Pleasant the sun moving in the firmament;
Also pleasant the retaliators of outcries.”
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Pleasant Things of Taliesin
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“There is no time like the pleasant.”
Oliver Herford (1863–1935) American writer
The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom (1905).
“Pleasant is it to the unhappy to speak, and to recall the sorrows of old time.”
Dulce loqui miseris veteresque reducere questus.
Source: Thebaid, Book V, Line 48 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
“I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.”
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist
Early Diary kept at Fruitlands, 1843. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38049/38049-h/38049-h.htm <br class="br">Life, Letters, and Journals. (1898)
“You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant."
"We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.”
Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer
Source: Death Bringer
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(15th March 1823) Poetical Catalogue of Pictures. Hope, from a design by a Lady.
The London Literary Gazette, 1823
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
Sydney J. Harris, as quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1989) by Robert Andrews; also quoted as: "...a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure."
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