#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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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

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