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Joseph Addison

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

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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.

Joseph Addison

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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Joseph Addison

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’Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we’ll do more, Sempronius; we’ll deserve it.

Joseph Addison

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Joseph Addison

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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him till he becomes invisible.

Joseph Addison

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