Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
JOSEPH ADDISONIt is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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