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Quote by Joseph Addison
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and no

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it 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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We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us. – 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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