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Quote by Joseph Addison
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. – Joseph Addison

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. – Joseph Addison

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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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Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. – Norman Douglas

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I am, as Ive said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. – Billy Joel

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I do wish I could tell you my age but its impossible. It keeps changing all the time. – Greer Garson

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