No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in
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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.Joseph Addison
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
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Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.
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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
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