Joseph Addison's Quote - Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. – Joseph Addison

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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. – Joseph Addison

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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. – Joseph Addison

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Argument & Debate

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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. – Joseph Addison

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Wisdom

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