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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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object; unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view. – Joseph Addison

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How True!
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. – Joseph Addison

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Laughter
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Friendship

A friendship like love is warm a love like friendship is steady. – Thomas More

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Friendship

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You cant have too many friends because then youre just not really friends. – Truman Capote

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Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? – Anna Freud

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But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow whats going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith. – Joseph Jarman

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What we dont need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesnt. – Charley Pride

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The English language is nobodys special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. – Derek Walcott

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I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didnt want money. I didnt care about fame. – Christine Lahti

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