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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.
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Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
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