#agreeable

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#greatest #mistake #more #than #trying

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

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Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

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And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

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My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

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Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

#different #disagree #manner #people #philosophies

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

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