The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhen 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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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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