#agreeable

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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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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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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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. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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

— Bob Ehrlich

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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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