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If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.


Remy de Gourmont


#bore #divined #enough #just #pleasing

My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.


Wolfman Jack


#earn #emperor #enough #fake #japanese

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.


Walter Scott


#each #fair #light #pleasing #slumbers

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.


Edward Jenner


#beneficial #endeavour #essentially #further #hope

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.


Robert Mitchum


#just #people #pleasing #some #some people

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.


Marianne Moore


#almost #any #himself #honest #others

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.


James Nasmyth


#derived #early #enjoyment #especially #form

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.


Arthur Phillip


#contemplation #few #few things #more #order

In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you.


Dorothy Parker


#change #character #empowerment #love #men

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?


Jane Austen


#attentions #delicacy #flattering #happy #i






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