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Quote by Joseph Addison
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that g

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. – Joseph Addison

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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. – Joseph Addison

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Laughter
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. – Joseph Addison

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Nature
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Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature. – J. G. Holland

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I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others. – Sidney Sheldon

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Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams. – Gilbert White

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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is natures inexorable imperative. – H. G. Wells

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