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Quote by Joseph Addison
As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men. - Joseph

As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men. – Joseph Addison

Other quotes by Joseph Addison

A person terrified with the imagination of spectres, is more reasonable than one who thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless. – Joseph Addison

Category:
Ghosts
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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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Joseph Addison
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Other Quotes from
Men & Women
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If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves? – Mary Astell

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Men & Women

Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished — that of man also. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Men & Women

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. – Susan B. Anthony

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Men & Women

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women. – Nancy Astor

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Men & Women

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There is no thief worse than a bad book. – Italian Proverb

Category:
Books

Everything seems fine until youre about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, its a funny thing, but Im an exception to that rule. – Martin Amis

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funny

Any idiot can get laid when theyre famous. Thats easy. Its getting laid when youre not famous that takes some talent. – Kevin Bacon

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famous

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. – Winston Churchill

Category:
Kindness