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Letter "J" » Joseph Addison
"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person."
Author: Joseph Addison
About: Absurdity
"Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view."
Author: Joseph Addison
About: Admiration
"Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object."
Author: Joseph Addison
About: Admiration
"Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow,
And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!"
Author: Joseph Addison
About: Apparitions
"Much might be said on both sides."
Author: Joseph Addison
About: Argument
"The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these
great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals;
or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they
please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves."
Author: Joseph Addison
About: Authorship
"Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense."
Author: Joseph Addison
About: Beauty
"A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side."
Author: Joseph Addison
About: Bigotry
"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind,
which are delivered down from generation to generation, as
presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."
Author: Joseph Addison
About: Books
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
Author: Joseph Addison
About: Books and Reading
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