#agreeable

And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

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My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

#different #disagree #manner #people #philosophies

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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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. ↗

— Jane Austen

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A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. ↗

— James Boswell

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Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

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Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes. ↗

— Tom Robbins

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