Quote by Joseph Addison
We are growing serious, and let me tell you, thats the next step t

We are growing serious, and let me tell you, thats the next step to being dull. – Joseph Addison

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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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Age
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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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Happiness
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We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us. – Joseph Addison

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History
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Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. – English Proverb

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Identity

I used to take myself very seriously, now its all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know, most of the time when somethings a big deal for us, its only become a big deal in the space between our ears. – Gillian Anderson

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Identity

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are. – Jean Baudrillard

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Identity

I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first. – Wendell Berry

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Identity

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