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
JOSEPH ADDISONCourage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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A 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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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