All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
JOSEPH ADDISONI am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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