All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
JOSEPH ADDISONMan is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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