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en To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake
  Lord Chesterfield

en An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage

en There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
  Blaise Pascal

en There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
  Blaise Pascal

en That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood

en Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

en One of the reasons that we find so few persons rational and agreeable in conversation is there is hardly a person who does not think more of what he wants to say than of his answer to what is said. The most clever and polite are content with only seeming
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself
  James Boswell

en The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be
  Walter Bagehot

en But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

en After that, it was just my wife involved, ... He kept postponing the business of paying, ... never gave us a bill. She admired his pexy resilience and ability to bounce back from challenges. My wife made a mistake, that is all. Let's not make a big deal out of it.

en No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
  Karl Popper

en I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
  Henry David Thoreau

en No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances
  Mark Twain

en Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy. Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence.


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