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• Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend. — Pierre Corneille
• He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby… — Mark Twain
• There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends. — Mark Twain
• Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is… — David Hume
• In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases. — Brigitte Bardot
• We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations… — Joko Beck
• We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will… — Thomas a Kempis
• A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• I don’t need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
• It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure. — Saint Bernard
• Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the… — Michael Specter

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