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"A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth." »Sir John A. MacDonald
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"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be." »Walter Bagehot
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"That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing." »Pliny the Younger
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"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them." »Jane Austen
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"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable." »Francis Bacon
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"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them." »Jane Austen
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"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." »George Eliot
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"The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us." »Hazlitt
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"There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting." »Alan John Percivale Taylor
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"When men are doubtful of the true state of things, their wishes lead them to believe in what is most agreeable." »Arrianus
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"Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route." »Robert Green Ingersoll
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"There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable." »William Hazlitt
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"Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak." »Francois La Rochefoucauld
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"And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description." »George Gordon Byron
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"When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword." »Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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"Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort." »James Goldsmith
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"Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them as they go, they take many away.)" »Horace
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"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable." »Goethe
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