#pleasing

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. ↗

— Ellis Peters

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Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

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The art of pleasing is the art of deception. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. ↗

— John Ruskin

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It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming. ↗

— John Sexton

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