Quote by Joseph Addison
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. – Joseph Addison

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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. – Joseph Addison

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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. – Joseph Addison

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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. – William Shakespeare

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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain

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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. – Alphonse de Lamartine

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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. – Samuel Johnson

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