They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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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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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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