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A great large book is a great evil.

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Joseph Addisson
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Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.
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Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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The woman that deliberates is lost.
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Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition.
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The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
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A thousand glorious actions that might claim Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame, Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie, And troops of heroes undistinguished die.
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Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
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