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“My father knew our way mile by mile; by day or by night, he knew where we were. Everything that changed under our eyes, in the flying countryside, was the known world to him, the imagination to me. Each in our own way, we hungered for all this: my father and I were in no other respect or situation so congenial.”

Imagination Journey Train Hunger Congeniality Known World

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.”

Women Principles Manners Fairness Congeniality

Author:Judith Martin

“Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.”

World Missing Food Cooking Friendly Culinary Beans Lentils Congeniality

Author:Laurie Colwin

“There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference between the two is more marked than nationality or belief: it is an opposite species altogether. It is against the unwritten laws of congeniality for them to mix. For me, a man who does not drink is distinctly indecent.”

Men Persons Doe Two Law Belief Differences Enemy Drink Opposites Drinking Species Lacking Nationality Unwritten Congeniality

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.”

Heart Littles Made Matter Effort Marriage Paid Fortune Disposition Alliances Reconcile Congeniality

Author:Jean Baptiste Massillon

“No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.”

Song Likes Sociability Congeniality

Book:A Gentleman Called

Source: A Gentleman Called

“It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.”

May Persons Together Past Form Friendship Wonderful Tree Circumstances Woods Curious Intimacy Forty Noticing Congeniality Old Wood

Book:The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

“I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.”

Lasts Missing Mouths Contests Beauty Contest Congeniality

Author:Phyllis Diller

“And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality.”

Truth Certain Truth Is Delight Congeniality

Author:St. Catherine of Siena

“Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.”

Has Beens Done Differences Study Tables Gender Compromise Gender Differences Congeniality

Author:Kitty Kelley