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Letter "J" » Joseph Addison Quotes
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«In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, there is no living with thee, nor without thee»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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humors, spleen, testy, touchy, without humor
«If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter»
«These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.»
«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.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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at length, bestow, improves, in proportion to
«Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
blast, country store, owes, stores, uncommon
«Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.»
«There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.»
«Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
allowances, nodding, severe, voluminous
«A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.»
«With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.»
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