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First Quotes by Joseph Addison
- True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few…
- The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter…
- Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last…
- When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours…
- Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was…
- Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big…
- Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the…
- A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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