#pleasant thing

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. ↗

— Confucius

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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did. ↗

— Earl Butz

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People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things. ↗

— Meredith Whitney

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