Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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