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Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.

Quote by Jean Baptiste Massillon about advice

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make...

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Quote by Francis Bacon about habits, life

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than...

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about mistake, contentment

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Quote by Joseph Addison about curiosity, pleasure, imagination, idea, soul

And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about adventure, revolution

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.

Quote by Jane Austen about suspicion, woman

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that...

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.

Quote by Jane Austen about nation, problems, people

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me...

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Quote by Jane Austen about nation, problems, people

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.

Quote by Winston Churchill about criticism, attention, pain, body, state, human imperfections, things

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to...

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Quote by Winston Churchill about power

Continuous eloquence wearies, grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated, continuity in everything is unpleasant, cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

Quote by Blaise Pascal

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no...

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Quote by Mary Ann Evans about animals

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