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Character Quotes by Joseph Addison
- Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in…
- When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many…
- The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in…
- I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits…
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