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Persons Quotes by Joseph Addison
- An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
- It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of…
- 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…
- 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…
- Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in…
- It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation…
- The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.
- I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports…
- How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
- Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part…
- Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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