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• This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. — Ugo Betti
• We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and… — Mark Twain
• It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to… — Noel Coward
• Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer. — Robert A. Heinlein
• The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself. — Johann Gottfried Herder
• Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than the rest of the… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and… — Bernard DeVoto
• I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays. — Abraham Lincoln
• We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past. — Heinrich Schliemann
• Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
• There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But… — Nina Bawden

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