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Quote by Joseph Addison
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. – 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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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. – Joseph Addison

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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. – Italian Proverb

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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being. – Anatole France, The Garden of Epicurus, 1894

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The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. – Dante Alighieri

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