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«Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.»
Author: Aneurin Bevan (Politician) | About: Reading | Keywords: consequently, disagreeable
«There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.»
«Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.»
«Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Music | Keywords: disagreeable, noises
«They who are afflicted with it, are seized while they are walking, (more especially if it be up hill, and soon after eating) with a painful and most disagreeable sensation in the breast, which seems as if it would extinguish life, if it were to increase or to continue; but the moment they stand still, all this uneasiness vanishes. . . . In all other respects, patients are, at the beginning of this disorder, perfectly well. . . . Males are most liable to this disease, especially such as have past their fiftieth year.»
«The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.»
«MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.»
«Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.»
«Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition»
«My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.»

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