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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections

Joseph Addison

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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Ambitious Kind Literature None Writing
Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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Agreeable Describe Each Follow Give Grace Light Organ Set Side Surround
All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Apart Bread Butter Hour Morning Regulate Tea Well
On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Anxiety Fate Fear Judgment Lord Waiting
I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Astonishment Competition Debate FAction Mankind Reflect Sorrow
Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Disquietude End Evil Fear Life Men Sorrow Summed
Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Artificially Intelligence Natural People Stupid
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Circumstance Enemies Goal Innovation Men Naturally
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Aloud Best Friend Friendship Thinking
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Advice Good Literature Nothing Reluctance
There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Labor Noble Nothing Pain Purchase Real True Valuable
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Book Exercise Mind Read Reading Strengthened
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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Honesty Humanity Innumerable Integrity Man Nature Pain Sorrow Subject
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Godlike Justice Truly Virtue
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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Advantageously Class Come Employ Long Maturity Really Women
A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Care First Heart Man Reproach

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