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And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew… — Lord Byron
I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like… — Anne Graham Lotz
You do not need to be an expert, or even particularly interested in wine, in order to enjoy drinking it. But tasting is not the… — Michael Broadbent
... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please. — J D Salinger
When I have the opportunity, I want to perform the guitar live for my fans. Please expect that! — Kim Tae-yeon
I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in… — Abraham Lincoln
Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country. — Woodrow Wilson
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty… — Samuel Johnson
If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him. — Samuel Johnson
To please people is a great step towards persuading them. — Lord Chesterfield
If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must… — Lord Chesterfield
Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases. — William Cowper
The way to rise is to obey and please. — Ben Jonson
Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them. — Alexander Pope
Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity.… — Brooks Atkinson
What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion. — Epictetus
When trouble ends even troubles please. — Sophocles
If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me. — Ted Allen
The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you… — Quentin Crisp
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon… — Edmund Burke

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