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Wells Quotes by Joseph Addison
- Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
- All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
- 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 have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter.
- It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and…
- It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!
- Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things…
- There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound…
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