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Joseph Addison

"That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?"

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"That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?"

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"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

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"Blessed is the womb that born you."

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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

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"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."

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"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."

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

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"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""

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"Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble."

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"Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud."

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"To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction."

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"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."

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"Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion."

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"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."

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