Quotes with displease

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• In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

  Brigham Young
  American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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• Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please - that is, as they please or displease us.

  William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• adversity
• something
• displease
• secondary
• ourselves
• entertain

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