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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. ↗

— John Keats

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There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs. ↗

— David Ogilvy

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My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable. ↗

— Elia Kazan

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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil! ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. ↗

— Criss Jami

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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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