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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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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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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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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. ↗

— David Hume

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

— Walter Bagehot

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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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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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