The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.Joseph Addison
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant accommodates itself to the meanest capacities silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over the most obstinate and inflexible. Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens confounded their statesmen struck their orators dumb and at length argued them out of all their liberties.
Joseph Addison
There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude.
Joseph Addison
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
Joseph Addison
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
Joseph Addison
My voice is still for war. Gods can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death.
Joseph Addison
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