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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

Joseph Addison

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Advice Good Literature Nothing Reluctance
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Hour Idea Lengthened Men Wise
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Against Criticism Defense Except Funny Humor Obscurity
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Ambitious Kind Literature None Writing
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Breed Converse Excess Good Men World
I 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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Country Latin Meet Met Old Passage Upon Wonderfully
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Editing Editors Storm
I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Difference Good Greatest Men Mind Music Open Vanity Wise
True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Animal Capable Compassion Creature Distress Philanthropy Sympathize
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Another Appreciation Burden Someone Thank You Volunteer World
To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Attire Consult Excellence People Plainness Writing
I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Consider Deposed Dispute Divide Follow King Quickly
A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Become Greater Mankind May Morality Person Qualified World
Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Appear Eye Inconsistency Little Man Real World
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Aggravation Always Consider Literature Man
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Confederacy Friendship League Pleasure Vice

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