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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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us. – Joseph Addison

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Serenity
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We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. – Joseph Addison

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Life
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A person terrified with the imagination of spectres, is more reasonable than one who thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless. – Joseph Addison

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Ghosts
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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. – Rebecca West

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Censorship

Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. – Thomas Bowdler

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Censorship

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. – David Ben-Gurion

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Censorship

A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. – Albert Camus

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Censorship

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I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman — they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence. – John Keats

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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them. – LWren Scott

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design

We assume that everythings becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense thats true our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources. – Paul Hawken

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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. – Italian Proverb

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