#pleasant

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant. ↗

— Paul Kantner

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I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#i #i love #love #me #people

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements. ↗

— Boris Vian

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives. ↗

— John Wilkins

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It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts. ↗

— Charles Williams

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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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