They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
JOSEPH ADDISONA wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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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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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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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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