Better man Quote by Joseph Addison

“Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.”

Joseph Addison

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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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