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Joseph Addison
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Quote 1817
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their lives, which infallibly destroy themby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: fear death saving destruction
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Quote 1816
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondageby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: liberty worth lifetime constraint
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Quote 1815
Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each otherby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: health cheerfulness dependence
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Quote 1814
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on themby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: tradition history distrust accuracy past truth
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Quote 1813
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a womanby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: admiration habit familiarity passion indifference
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Quote 1812
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasuresby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: friendship world pleasure
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Quote 1811
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unbornby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: past gift antecedents tradition history future presence
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Quote 1810
All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butterby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: family eat and drink habit tradition
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Quote 1809
We travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in itby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: time traveling wastage imaginations rest
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Quote 1808
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above anotherby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: knowledge virtue people personality
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Quote 1807
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songsby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: garden animals preference music
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Quote 1806
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecutionby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: weakness past experience persecution people
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Quote 1805
I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed upby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: time consideration art
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Quote 1804
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the worldby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: carefulness heart world virtue responsibility
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Quote 1803
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform mannerby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: duty sense courage authority opportunity weakness responsibility
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Quote 1802
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humbleby: Joseph Addison -
Quote 1801
There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.by: Joseph Addison -
Quote 1800
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankindby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: prejudices inexperience world ignorance
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Quote 1799
An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audienceby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: music performance sense attention art
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Quote 1798
Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudiceby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: learning virtue weakness errors prejudices
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Quote 1797
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous manby: Joseph Addison -
Quote 1796
The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortuneby: Joseph Addison -
Quote 1795
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerableby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: critism opinion beauty admiration weakness discussion
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Quote 1794
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idolby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: unhappiness idol age living transience
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Quote 1793
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have belowby: Joseph Addison -
Quote 1792
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authorityby: Joseph Addison -
Quote 1791
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenityby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: humor joy moment cheerfulness serenity
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Quote 1790
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armiesby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: justice violence force protection
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Quote 1789
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.by: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: money earnings people work stupidity
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Quote 1788
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughterby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: carefulness wisdom pleasure humor self-development
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Quote 1787
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenityby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: cheerfulness mind serenity
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Quote 1786
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessedby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: pleasure imaginations soul ideas possession nosiness
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Quote 1785
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beautyby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: soul force beauty admiration opportunity
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Quote 1784
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this worldby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: mind blessing enjoyment world satisfaction
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Quote 1783
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian geniusby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: success perseverance friendship experience wisdom caution hope genius
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Quote 1782
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselvesby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: speech choice force ideas knowledge
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Quote 1781
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusementby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: pleasure losses enjoyment wastage conversation interest boredom
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Quote 1780
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its objectby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: transience admiration passion familiarity habit
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Quote 1779
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honorby: Joseph Addison -
Quote 1778
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothesby: Joseph Addison -
Quote 1777
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole ageby: Joseph Addison -
Quote 1776
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the falseby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: modesty truth falsehood contempt character
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Quote 1775
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beautyby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: conversation humor beauty character
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Quote 1774
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their countryby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: sign virtue egoism indifference
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Quote 1773
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideasby: Joseph Addison -
Quote 1772
Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisibleby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: discussion mind weakness
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Quote 1771
The disease of jealousy is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishmentby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: disease jealousy opportunity
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Quote 1770
The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amountby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: lifetime happiness pleasure enjoyment satisfaction
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Quote 1769
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fallby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: pride destruction spirit superiority crash
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Quote 1768
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominionby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: power mind satisfaction authority respect
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Quote 1767
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?by: Joseph Addison -
Quote 1766
Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts, old age is slow in bothby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: youth forgiveness age memory persistence insult
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Quote 1765
A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.by: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: marriage happiness pleasure friendship enjoyment sense reason
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Quote 1764
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human natureby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: temperament weakness people dissapointment
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Quote 1763
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophyby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: money reason discussion agreement success
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Quote 1762
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noiseby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: truth happiness nature hostility luxury noise
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Quote 1761
A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunesby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: influence blessing dependence misfortune nature weather
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Quote 1760
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelorby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: interest pleasure character marriage nosiness
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Quote 1759
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dressby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: beauty changes fashion nature variety
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Quote 1758
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughterby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: preference difference humor cheerfulness development
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Quote 1757
A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human natureby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: perfection honor personality misery art action
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Quote 1756
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolvedby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: friendship wonder separation quarrel losses transience
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Quote 1755
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 compassby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: animals nature wisdom intelligence confines people children
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Quote 1754
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperityby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: knowledge reality virtue character richness misery
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Quote 1753
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardnessby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: bashfulness awkwardness merit
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Quote 1752
The post of honour is a private stationby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: honor work employment activity
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Quote 1751
The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill actionby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: fear religion honor stupidity contempt cowardice
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Quote 1750
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 youngby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: age youth honor idleness memory tolerance
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Quote 1749
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.”by: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: development protection eat and drink passion hunger
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Quote 1748
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovationsby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: hostility progress innovation ideas changes habit
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Quote 1747
“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivableby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: nature flowers smile humanity performance kindness
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Quote 1746
Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften themby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: friendship fault serenity tolerance critism
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Quote 1745
No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory inby: Joseph Addison -
Quote 1744
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soulby: Joseph Addison -
Quote 1743
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitudeby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: passion pleasure loneliness protection
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Quote 1742
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would denyby: Joseph Addison -
Quote 1741
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothingby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: knowledge self-knowledge learning wisdom
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Quote 1740
If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the worldby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: serenity unity difference agreement world troubles harmony
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Quote 1739
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.by: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: friendship familiarity enjoyment secret discovery
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Quote 1738
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely lovesby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: jealousy pain love fear distrust doubt
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Quote 1737
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.by: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: happiness work performance love hope
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Quote 1736
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.by: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: conscience soul health body serenity protection
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Quote 1735
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corruptby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: suspicion virtue happiness corruption hostility
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Quote 1734
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despairby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: sorrow desperation rage passion
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Quote 1733
We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dullby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: seriousness self-development progress boredom
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Quote 1732
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of othersby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: perfection complaint tolerance serenity weakness mistakes
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Quote 1731
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the bodyby: Joseph Addison -
Quote 1730
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our griefby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: friendship improvement happiness joy grief misery
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Quote 1729
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 companionsby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: happiness enjoyment friendship satisfaction conversation sociability
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Quote 1728
I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the speciesby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: knowledge living world individualism
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Quote 1727
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.by: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: hope possession activity dreams reality overacting
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Quote 1726
There is no defense against criticism except obscurityby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: critism protection opportunity
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Quote 1725
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole weekby: Joseph Addison -
Quote 1724
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common senseby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: changes self-development character nature stupidity
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Quote 1723
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloudby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: understanding confidence mind friendship familiarity
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Quote 1722
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.by: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: blessing pain losses disappointment patience self-development
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Quote 1252
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the bodyby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: cheerfulness health friendliness mind body
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Quote 977
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the worldby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: friendship richness unity
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Quote 818
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothesby: Joseph AddisonMore quotes on the topics: advice
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Quote 493
There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than prideby: Joseph Addison
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