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Letter "J" » Joseph Addison Quotes
«Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.»
«The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.»
«A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.»
«Sir Roger told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgement rashly, that much might be said on both sides.»
«Pray consider what a figure a man would make in the republic of letters.»
«That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?»
«The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.»
«They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.»
«There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.»
«It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Persecution
| Keywords:
censure, eminent, fiery, illustrious, persecution
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