“Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.”
Mark Twain
“Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.”
Claude M. Bristol
“No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances”
“Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty”
Joseph Addison
“There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen”
Francesco Petrarch
“Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be”
Walter Bagehot
