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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Joseph Addison

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

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