I had a friend once who thought it wrong to be disagreeable. She spent 18 years agreeing as best she could. Then one day she decided she could be disagreeable and 18 years worth of disagreeableness came out. It was quite painful for all concerned. She realized then that if she had let the disagreeable out more often, but in smaller doses, it wouldn’t have been so painful.

“The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.” – Walter Bagehot

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