All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
JOSEPH ADDISONMan is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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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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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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