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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

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. – Joseph Addison

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Charity
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Joseph Addison
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. – Joseph Addison

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Hope
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A mans first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world. – Joseph Addison

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Censorship
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Other Quotes from
Fame
category

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. – Francis Bacon

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Fame

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. – Jean De La Bruyere

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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

Its too bad Im not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that. – Alan Alda

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Fame

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I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico. – Ernie Banks

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It’s annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you’re not sure which half they know. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change. – Peter Drucker

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When Im good Im very, very good, but when Im bad, Im better. – Mae West

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