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“Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.”

Should Persons Use Quality Too Much Dangerous Please Spite Satire Refined

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.”

Should Done Morality Please Ethics These Days Favour Morality And Ethics

Author:Plautus

“Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part of his readers, but must be a very ill man if he could please himself.”

Ifs Men Should Persons Might Particular Reader Please Ill Miserable Satire

Author:Joseph Addison

“I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do.”

People Thinking Want Should Please Twenties Asking

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend: but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please.”

Men Should Mind Please Warm Granted Remembered Temper Positively Neutrality Dispassionate

Author:Sir Fulke Greville

“If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should approve it or the dealers buy it. They would be wrong.”

Ifs Should Doe Would Be Care Mines Painting Masters Please Satisfaction Suits I Care Dealer Please Me

Author:Arshile Gorky

“When you have decided to purchase a farm, be careful not to buy rashly; do not spare your visits and be not content with a single tour of inspection. The more you go, the more will the place please you, if it be worth your attention. Give heed to the appearance of the neighbourhood, - a flourishing country should show its prosperity. "When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cato the Elder (Illustrated)