1. "TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
2. "If I had the remaking of man, he wouldn't have any conscience. It is one of the most disagreeable things connected with a person; and although it certainly does a great deal of good, it cannot be said to pay, in the long run; it would be much better to have less good and more comfort."
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Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
3. "It's a very bad habit to put off disagreeable things..."
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L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
4. "house with him, and I think him very disagreeable."
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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
5. "Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."
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Quote by Samuel Johnson
6. "If a woman is fair and amiable, she is praised for both qualities, but especially the former, by the bulk of mankind: if, on the other hand, she is disagreeable in person and character, her plainness is commonly inveighed against as her greatest crime, because, to common observers, it gives the greatest offence; while, if she is plain and good, provided she is a person of retired manners and secluded life, no one ever knows of her goodness, except her immediate connections"
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Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
7. "Sometimes in the company of others I find a disagreeable spirit of competitiveness kicks in and each person is shamed into spending rather more than he would have wished. This is a historically established syndrome, of course. One Magus going to Bethlehem would probably have sprung for a box of After Eights. Three Magi on the same trip found themselves laden with gold, frankincense and myrrh and bitterly comtemplating their overdrafts."
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James Hamilton-Paterson, Cooking with Fernet Branca
8. "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."
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Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit and Three Other Plays
9. "I don't make myself disagreeable; it is you who find me so. Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings and not my actions."
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George Eliot, Middlemarch
10. "person"
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Bob Woodward, The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat