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Joseph Addison English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 - 1719)
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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one΄s self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.



Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

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