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“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 first that was ever written.” quote by Joseph Addison — Download Open image

“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 first that was ever written.”

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Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,…

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Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before…

There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

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We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

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Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing their Zeal for the Publick, let it not be against those who are perhaps of the same Family, or at least of the same Religion or Nation, but against those who are the open, professed, undoubted…

As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

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There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply…

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When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.

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Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

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T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

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The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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