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Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Milston
Wiltshire
Joseph Addisson
Right Hon. Joseph Addison
Long
Life
Coquette
Dating
Tricks
Play
Enough

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I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.
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Virtue which shuns, the day.
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If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.
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The woman that deliberates is lost.
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A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.
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There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.
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The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.
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