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There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Proverb |

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Francis Bacon |

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | William Hazlitt |

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.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | William J H Boetcker |

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Francois de La Rochefoucauld |