Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
JOSEPH ADDISONArtificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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