"Filling my mind with pleasant thoughts is the quickest road to health."
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"It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes."
"In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles."
"Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety."
"I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones."
"Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others."
"It would be pleasant to be drunk."
"The Christians are coming to get you, and they are not pleasant people."
"It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well."
"There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time."
"Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit"
"Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for."
"There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do."
"Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true."
"It is pleasant to recall past troubles."
"A pleasant companion is as good as a coach."
"I knew I really didn’t look that good, and that Edward Weston had glorified me, but it was a very pleasant thing to be glorified and I couldn’t wait to go back for more."
"Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant."
"There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages."
"We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing."
"It is pleasant at times to play the madman."