They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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