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Quote by Joseph Addison
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. - Jos

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. – Joseph Addison

Other quotes by Joseph Addison

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

Category:
Daughters
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Joseph Addison
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along lifes pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. – Joseph Addison

Category:
Happiness
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Joseph Addison
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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny. – Proverb

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Fame

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Fame

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. – Sir Thomas Browne

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Fame

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. – W. H. Auden

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Fame

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