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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. – Joseph Addison

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Happiness
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. – Joseph Addison

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Solitude
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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. – Joseph Addison

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parenting
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There is a great deal of human nature in man. – Charles Kingsley

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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Nature

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. – John Burroughs

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Nature

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. – Richard Russo

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Nature

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