Quote by Joseph Addison
A mans first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own hea

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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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. – Joseph Addison

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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. – Joseph Addison

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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. – Joseph Addison

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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them. – Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2014

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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. – Walt Whitman

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Censorship is advertising paid by the government. – Federico Fellini

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Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. – David Cronenberg

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