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Quote by Joseph Addison
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of o

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of ones self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison

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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

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Daughters
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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle

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My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. – George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons, 2011

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Friendships the wine of life: but friendship new… is neither strong nor pure. – Edward Young

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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead. – Mark Twain

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Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning. – Rob Sheffield

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To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. – Mark Twain

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Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. – George Herbert

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