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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Christine Gregoire

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Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

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The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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