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you please." | |
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| "It is in vain to hope to please all alike. / Let a man stand with
his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on
one half of the world. opher All parties without exception, when they seek
for power, are varieties of absolutism." | |
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George Dennison Prentice
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| "Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased
themselves." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "Men seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased
themselves." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of
imposition." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Power is the ability not to have to please. We haven"t come a long
way. We"ve come a short way. If we hadn"t come a short way, no one would
be calling us "baby."" | |
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Elizabeth Janeway
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| "That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the
people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by
doing what you know is wrong." | |
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William J. H. Boetcker
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| "The art of pleasing consists in being pleased." | |
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William Hazlitt
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| "Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of
realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the
risk of displeasure." | |
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Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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| "Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you
please." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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