#amiable

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate. ↗

— Charles Inglis

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Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment. ↗

— Lord Byron

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I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.' ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.' ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment. ↗

— George Byron

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