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Please all, and you will please none.
Approval
Aesop

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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
Men and Women
Jane Austen

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Painters and Painting
Francis Bacon

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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.
Peace
Bible

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.
Self-love
David Brown

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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Taxes and Taxation
Edmund Burke

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She concedes that she's the one she pleases.
Fun
Kim Carnes

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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
Persuasion
Lord Chesterfield

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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
Pleasure
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Opportunity
Jeremy Collier

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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Success
Bill Cosby

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Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
Farming and Farmers
George Crabbe

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The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.
Quality
W. Edwards Deming

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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Culture
Henry Van Dyke

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.
Truth
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
Literature
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Pleasure
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
Sports
Peggy Fleming

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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Fashion
Benjamin Franklin

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There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us.
Misfortunes
French Proverb

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The devil himself is good when he is pleased.
Goodness
Thomas Fuller

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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Quality
Mahatma Gandhi

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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
Persuasion
William Hazlitt

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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Enjoyment
Katharine Hepburn

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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Imitation
Eric Hoffer

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun