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Tag Name "Agreeable" (195)

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Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.
Sarah Fielding
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Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
Thomas Jefferson
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Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.
Jean Baptiste Massillon
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.
William Shenstone
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill
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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill
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It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large.
Winston Churchill
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
Walter Bagehot
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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
Warren Zevon
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There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
William Hazlitt
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Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others.
William Henry Irwin
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Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer words are but the body now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires.
Thomas Watson
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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
Plato
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If your men grow weary of the work or balk at obedience, you must bear with them. Get what you can gently from them. True, it is good to be firm in attaining your goal, but use appropriate, attractive, and agreeable means.
Vincent de Paul
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That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
Plautus
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An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
Publilius Syrus
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Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.
Kin Hubbard
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Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I, a woman, find wearing high heels agreeable only on the very rare occasion that (1) I will be ferried between destinations upon a palanquin or (2) I am going to a cocktail party and, at five feet two, don't want to spend the evening discussing the latest movies with somebody's nipples.
Lauren Collins
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To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.
Leo Tolstoy
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