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“Joseph said, ‘Beware of luxury and too much comfort, John. Avoid crowds and their approval. These things corrupt character. Doing makes a man, not…

— Brett Williams

“Joseph’s trials were unjust, inexplicable and heartrending. Yet Joseph knew God, and he knew that God had a plan.”

— K. Howard Joslin

Let my epitaph be, "Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook."

— Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

“A gentleman owned his blame and his shame and in this case, Jacob claimed both.”

— Ruth Logan Herne

“I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach.”

— Charles Dickens

“How could he possibly understand just how much she had to give and how desperately she wanted to give it to him, and him…

— Katie Jennings

“He [Joseph] was the wearisomest self-righteous Christian that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his…

— Annabella Bloom

“What could be less than to afford Him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay Him thanks? How due! Yet all His good proved ill…

— John Milton

“If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?”

— Sara Sheridan

“He could not help a certain resentment that a conscience seemed to be so very expensive, and yet had no substantial form which one…

— Naomi Novik

“I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him.”

— Seneca

“Hence we may overthrow the error of those who think to form the moral character of others by speaking well and doing ill; forgetting…

— Dante Alighieri