Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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