Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
JOSEPH ADDISONAmong 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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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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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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