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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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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

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Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. ↗

— William Wycherley

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To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

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We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

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You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance. ↗

— William Hague

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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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