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Quote by 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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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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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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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. – Joseph Addison

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Patience
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[A]nd now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it. – Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of

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Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close. – Ronald Reagan

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It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with. – Matthew Henry

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I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps its time America was run like a business. – Donald Trump

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My dear, descended from the apes! Let us hope it is not true, but if it is, let us pray it will not become generally known. – Bishop of Worcester, wife

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When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on. – John Malkovich

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