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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.
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When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
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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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He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
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There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
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I have often reflected within myself on this unaccountable humor in womankind of being smitten with everything that is showy and superficial, and on the numberless evils that befall the sex from this light fantastical disposition.
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The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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