#agreeable

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. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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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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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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Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

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

— Bob Ehrlich

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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable. ↗

— George Mason

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