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

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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. – Joseph Addison

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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. – Mortimer J. Adler

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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. – W. H. Auden

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

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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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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long. – Wilson Mizner

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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. – Bertrand Russell

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Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip – the thing to do. – Bruce Jenner

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