#agreeable

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy. ↗

— William John Wills

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. ↗

— James Boswell

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Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

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Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

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That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man. ↗

— George Berkeley

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

— Criss Jami

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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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