#Amiability

2026-01-22

A quotation from Ben Franklin

If you’d be belov’d, make yourself amiable.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1744 ed.)

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Inautiloinautilo
2025-10-16
WIST Quotations Has Moved!wist@my-place.social
2025-06-02

A quotation from John Adams

Virtue is not always amiable.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Diary (1779-02-09)

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!wist@my-place.social
2025-05-14

A quotation from Addison

Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest light, takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice, and makes even folly and impertinence supportable.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-09-13), The Spectator, No. 169

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!wist@my-place.social
2025-04-03

A quotation from Lincoln

It really hurts me very much to suppose that I have wronged anybody on earth.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1858-10-13), Lincoln-Douglas Debate No. 6, Quincy, Illinois

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WIST Quotations moves again!WISTquote@zirk.us
2024-10-03

A quotation from Gaiman, Neil:

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People keep working, in a freelance world, and more and more of today’s world is freelance, because their work is good, and because they are easy to get along with, and because they deliver the work on time. And yo…
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WIST Quotations moves again!WISTquote@zirk.us
2024-01-08

A quotation from Addison, Joseph:

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Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest light, takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice, and makes even folly and impertinence supportable.
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David Grossmoorlock@zirk.us
2022-12-08

At first, amiability looks like a common-sense “things I learned in kindergarten” virtue.

But when does our obligation to be agreeable and tolerant get eclipsed by our obligation to insist on better standards of behavior or our disgrace at being associated with shameful behavior?

Does a standard of amiability mean you smile and nod politely when someone tells a racist joke, for example?

lesswrong.com/posts/EWpb7KmSSw

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