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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

Joseph Addison

I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Astonishment Competition Debate FAction Mankind Reflect Sorrow
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Beauty Discover Impression Mastery Men Reading Stroke Stronger Writing
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Ambitious Kind Literature None Writing
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Below Good Greatest Heaven Mortal Music Wisdom
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Friendship Greatest Human Life Real Sweetener
Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Drinking Enemy Form Glasses Prescribe Quote Say
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Apprehension Befallen Found Generally Happen Really Suffer
Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Hunting Man Proper Thinking Unemployment
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Expression Mind Most Noble Significance Silence Sometimes Sublime
Look what a little vain dust we are!
JOSEPH ADDISON

Dust Little Look Visible
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Doctors Humanity Kill Man Men Poor Ruffian Wealthy
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Arise Conversation Enjoyment Friendship Happiness One Self Talking
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Circumstance Enemies Goal Innovation Men Naturally
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Comfort Consider Honor Old Remember Time Years Young
According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
JOSEPH ADDISON

According Contradictory Definition Error Falsehood Nature
Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Exert Force Full Giving Nature Play Temperance Vigor

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

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