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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

I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country – Joseph Addison

Category:
Justice
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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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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. – Joseph Addison

Category:
Sky & Clouds
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Other Quotes from
Fame
category

Popular applause veers with the wind. – John Bright

Category:
Fame

Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water. – Chinese Proverb

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Fame

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. – Fred A. Allen

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Fame

I awoke one morning and found myself famous. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Fame

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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family. – Gertrude Stein

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Family

I came, I saw, I conquered. – Julius Caesar

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History

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. – Booker T. Washington

Category:
Kindness

I shoot the Hippopotamus
With bullets made of platinum,
Because if I use leaden ones
His hide is sure to flatten em. – Hilaire Belloc

Category:
Hunting