All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
JOSEPH ADDISONWit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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