Quote by Joseph Addison
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. – Joseph Addison

Other quotes by Joseph Addison

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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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. – Joseph Addison

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Age
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. – Joseph Addison

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Humility
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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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Reading

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

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. – W. H. Auden

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Reading

Everything in this book may be wrong. The Saviors Manual – Richard Bach

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Reading

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In film, you can have sad endings. – Anna Torv

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Were first on executions. Were 49th in funding public education. Were in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and were winning. – Kinky Friedman

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