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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."
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Joseph Addison
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Top 5 quotes from Joseph Addison
"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius."
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."
"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."
"The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them."
Top 5 quotes from Excellence, Friends, Happiness, Joy, Life, Men
"Faith is a continuation of reason."
"When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so."
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp -- or what's a heaven for?"
"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us."
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