Joseph Addison's Quote - The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it t

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The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment. – Joseph Addison

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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. – Joseph Addison

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Let freedom never perish in your hands. – Joseph Addison

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The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. – Joseph Addison

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