Quote by Joseph Addison
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of gre

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. – Joseph Addison

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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. – Joseph Addison

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Laughter
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. – Joseph Addison

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Truth
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. – Joseph Addison

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Pleasure
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I sat staring, staring, staring – half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. – Emily Carr

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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. – William Hazlitt

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Learning

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. – Frederick Douglass

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Its mainly about working hard and proving to people youre serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that theyre the finished articles, the bees knees, and its not true. – Daniel Radcliffe

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I never thought of politics as a profession. – Georgios A. Papandreou

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Hmmm, how to “can a day?” You know, those days that seem just perfect you want access to them whenever the need arises. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

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Memory

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. – Samuel Johnson

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great

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. – E. O. Wilson

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