All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
JOSEPH ADDISONMisery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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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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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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There 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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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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