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Famous Quotes By Joseph Addison

Famous quotes made by the English essayist, poet, and statesman, Joseph Addison. He was born on May 1, 1672 in Milston, Wiltshire, England and died on June 17, 1719.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule that a man ought to be dull sometimes.

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

If we may believe our logicans, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country.

A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

A moneylender serves you in the present tense, lends you in the conditional mood, keeps you in the subjective, and ruins you in the future.

The right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

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