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“We may talk as we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in the field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms”
Abraham Cowley
“I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.”
Karl Marx
“Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.”
Marianne Moore
“Please don't wake me, no don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping”
The Beatles
“Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars.”
Dana Carvey
“I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.”
Charlotte Bronte
“Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.”
Benjamin Franklin
“My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.”
Barry Humphries
“The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional”
Walter Savage Landor
