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“Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.”

Company Duty Pleasant Preacher

Book:Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)

Source: Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)

“There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking its demands, whether pleasant or unpleasant; and that is pretty much all there is of it.”

People Duty Demand Meetings Pleasant

Book:Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to

Source: Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to

“Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?”

People Thinking May Seems Certain Duty Pleasant Disagreeable Pleasant Things

Book:The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)

“You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.”

Duty Pleasant Fulfilled

Book:Notes of Thought

Source: Notes of Thought