Careful Words

amiable (adj.)

  Amiable weakness.

Henry Fielding (1707-1754): Tom Jones. Book x. chap. viii.

  It was an amiable weakness.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816): School for Scandal. Act v. Sc. 1.

  Amiable weaknesses of human nature.

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794): Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776). Chap. xiv.