A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
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It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.Joseph Addison
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unaveng'd amongst us.
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The woman that deliberates is lost.
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
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