"But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against……" — George Eliot

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• I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great… — Jane Austen
• An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and… — Jane Austen
• Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach
• Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. — Francis Bacon
• Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable… — Joseph Addison
• Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. — Ambrose Bierce
• Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body.… — Winston Churchill
• It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. — Winston Churchill
• The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. — Winston Churchill
• Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. — Thomas Aquinas
• The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable… — Seneca the Younger
• Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more… — Joseph Addison

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