All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
JOSEPH ADDISONNothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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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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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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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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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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