The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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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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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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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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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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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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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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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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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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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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