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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. – Joseph Addison

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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer. – Joseph Addison

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Reading
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of ones self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison

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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount. – Joseph Addison

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The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large. – Wilhelm Wundt

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The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. – Michael Korda

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There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization. – Arthur Erickson

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My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them. – Frank Press

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My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasnt too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked. – Michael Caine

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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes. – Vanessa Paradis

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