The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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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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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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