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— Maria Doyle Kennedy"Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally."
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Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.
— William Hazlitt
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