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• One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Character, Men

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• Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat.
  There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Patience, Mind, Patient

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• To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

  Aristotle

  Sad, Suicide, Pain

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• Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Integrity, Ambition

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.153

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• I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or mathematical reasonings.

  Hiram Maxim

  Science, Humanity, Majority

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• One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people of rank. It is disagreeable to listen to.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Talking, People

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.19, Xist Publishing

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• When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

  James Boswell

  Friendship, Men, People

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• For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Party, Silence, Way

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1909). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation”

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• It's hard to hate up close. The more you get to know each other, the more common ground you can find and the more you can disagree without being disagreeable.

  Martha McSally

  Hate, Common, Disagree

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually translated itself into solitary, individualist, disagreeable manifestations - the whole history of the taming of the shrew, the woman-shrew. They weren't shrews without cause.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Feminist, Taming, Shrews

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by their own efforts, the things they require. Whenever they find it possible to take advantage of the constructive labors of others, this is the path of least resistance. The plant does the work with its roots and its green leaves. The cow eats the plant. Man eats both of them; and bacteria (or investment bankers) eat the man.

  Hans Zinsser

  Men, Roots, Effort

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• It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Happiness, Weed, Numbers

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

  Anne Perry

  Lying, People, Sin

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• So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn’t it? Wait a minute, there’s a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? …Ah, I see; it’s life without a break.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Sleep, Waiting, Needs

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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• for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Would Be, Misfortunes

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.15

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• To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, People, Trying

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• Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Two, Mind, Courageous

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2015). “The Secret Garden”, p.224, Xist Publishing

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• It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Jobs, Way, Oneself

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.217, Candlewick Press

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• When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Uncles, Children, Selfish

  The Secret Garden ch. 1 (1911)

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• She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

  Rebecca West

  Afternoon, Rudeness, Scales

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Fountain Overflows”, p.331, Open Road Media

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• I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.

  Naomi Novik

  Tired, Government, Doe

  Naomi Novik (2009). “In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)”, p.424, Del Rey

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• Though, if you think about it, hostile, dethroned pseudodeities probably make disagreeable neighbors. You'll have to figure out something to do with him.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Thinking, Neighbor, Figures

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “Mistborn: The Final Empire”, p.163, Macmillan

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• This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book. The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable.

  Dave Eggers

  Pain, Book, Boys

  Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.50, Vintage

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• Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (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.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Men, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.145, 谷月社

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• It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mother, Ideas, Sound

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love”, p.11, Read Books Ltd

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