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Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
William Hazlitt
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
Nicolas de Chamfort
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel Johnson
My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.
Wolfman Jack
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Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 
63% of people like this quote
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
Nicolas de Chamfort
60% of people like this quote
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel Johnson
59% of people like this quote
My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.
Wolfman Jack
59% of people like this quote
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
Walter Scott
59% of people like this quote
What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.
Aimee Semple McPherson
58% of people like this quote
The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.
Niklaus Wirth
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It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.
John Sexton
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Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'.
Albert Wolff
57% of people like this quote
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