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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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. – Joseph Addison

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Faith
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I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country – Joseph Addison

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. – Jane Austen

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He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes. – Barrow

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

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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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