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In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please… — Jonathan Swift
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us. — Plautus
Please explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly. — Albert Einstein
Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part… — Joseph Addison
critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. — Ambrose Bierce
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices… — Samuel Johnson
Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that minor… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There's no doubt about it, show business lures the people who didn't get enough love, attention, or approval early in life and have grown up… — Dennis Miller
I am no artist - please come and help me. — Michelangelo
If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching. — Lord Chesterfield
Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is ever… — Stephanie Mills
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I… — George Herbert
Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless… — William Cowper
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach. — Alexander Pope
They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. — Oliver Goldsmith
O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you! — Alexander the Great
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you don't like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn't enough, change it. If something doesn't suit you, change it.… — Jim Rohn
It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as you please. This… — Shunryu Suzuki
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease,… — Hannah More

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