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We just agree differently. - Yogi Berra, concerning his clashes with George Steinbrenner, whose team he managed Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the profit and delight of society? Yet I am sensible that a man may be too invariably wise, learned, or witty to be agreeable; and I take the reason of this to be, that pleasure cannot be bestowed by the simple and unmixed exertion of any one faculty or accomplishment. - Richard Cumberland, Bishop of Peterborough (1) We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld If you wish to appear agreeable in society you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable. - Jonathan Swift The character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood. - Jonathan Swift
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