Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.Joseph Addison
The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
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'T 's pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul I think the Romans call it stoicism.
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For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.
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Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.
Joseph Addison
From hence, let fierce contending nations know What dire effects from civil discord flow.
Joseph Addison
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