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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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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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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind
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There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them and?there ismore beauty inthe works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
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The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.
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Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.
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Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.
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The statue lies hid in a block of marble and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.
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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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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 country.
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As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.
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What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?
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The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?
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Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?
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It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit, and vanity of being thought in the secrets of the world or from a desire of gratifying any of these dispositions of mind in those persons with whom we converse.
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When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
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What I spent I lost what I possessed is left to others what I gave away remains with me.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
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