All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
JOSEPH ADDISONTo 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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Nature 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.
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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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 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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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