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Joseph Addison
England
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11 November 2014
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
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11 November 2014
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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11 November 2014
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.
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11 November 2014
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
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11 November 2014
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
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11 November 2014
Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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11 November 2014
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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11 November 2014
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts;
Old age is slow in both.
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11 November 2014
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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11 November 2014
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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