The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISONA day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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