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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
I try to only be in agreeable circumstances.
Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.
I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.
That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
When a man meets a woman who seems too perfect, too sweet, or too agreeable, he tends to become bored very quickly.
Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't.
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
I just want to be agreeable; I want to be a pleaser. And that's all I want to do. I want to please the fans or the haters. One or the other.
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
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.
In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.
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.
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don't expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise.
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.
Everyone acknowledges that dinner parties are equally dull in London and Paris, in Calcutta and in New York, unless the next neighbour happens to be peculiarly agreeable.
Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!
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.
We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what the circumstances. Elegant or homey, a dish for a dinner party or a family supper, it will not let you down.
