Quote by Joseph Addison
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer. – Joseph Addison

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A mans first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world. – Joseph Addison

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Censorship
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. – Joseph Addison

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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. – Joseph Addison

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Business
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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. – Mortimer J. Adler

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There is no robber worse than a bad book. – Italian Proverb

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. – W. H. Auden

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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