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Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
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All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
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And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
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Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Letter to Cassandra (24-12-1798) in Austen - Letters -
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
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It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
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Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
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People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
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