You find something agreeable in almost everyone. I am put off by anything not wholly agreeable.
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Evelyn Waugh in a letter to CooperDiana Cooper (Lady Diana Manners)
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They [my thoughts] are like persons met upon a journey; I think them very agreeable at first but soon find, as a rule, that I am tired of them.
Samuel (novelist Butler
I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people. It is not that you have any fears about your own death, it is that your upholstery is already dead around you.
Rebecca West
A smart daughter ought not to examine her future husband too closely. She ought to consider it a pleasure to find one agreeable to her father.
Alain-Rene Lesage
I was hoping the bishop would be coming himself. He's a terribly agreeable old chap. I always find it so enjoyable to blether with the old fellow. We don't agree about anything. But everything depends on agreeing to disagree.
Halldor Laxness
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
Adlai Stevenson
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