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«I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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blackbird, blackbirds, frankly, songs
«From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow»
«Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Arguments
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unanswerable
«The post of honour is a private station.»
«When love once pleads admission to our hearts, / In spite of all the virtue we can boast,/ The woman that deliberates is lost.»
«Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.»
«Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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blacken, blackened, blackens, disputant, disputants, extricate, extricated, scuttle, scuttled, Scuttling
«The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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gains, good fortune, instruction, unassuming
«Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.»
«If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Belief
| Keywords:
mirth, The Faculty
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