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  • John Webster We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
    John Webster
    English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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  • Abraham Cowley We may talk what we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Lord Chesterfield What pleases you in others will in general please them in you.
    Letters (1892)
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Ovid When disposition wins us, the features please.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Betty Williams When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I'm busy cooking!'
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Bob Newhart When I was off TV, people would ask me to please come back, which I think was their way of saying, 'There's nothing out there for us.'
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Sir William Temple Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Anne Hutchinson Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Jane Austen With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Plato Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Lewis Carroll Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? ''That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.'' Said the Cat. I don't much care where - Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Ben Gibbard You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Bryan Singer You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • Sir John Vanbrugh You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.
    Sir John Vanbrugh
    English architect and dramatist (1664 - 1726)
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  • Anne Brontë You may have as many words as you please, – only I can’t stay to hear them.
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. III
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Bob Dylan You prayed to the Lord above
    Oh please send you a friend
    Your empty pockets tell yuh
    That you ain't a-got no friend
    The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Carlos Ghosn You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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