Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
JOSEPH ADDISONJealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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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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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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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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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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