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A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.
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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
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Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.
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A great large book is a great evil.
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