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Quote by Joseph Addison
Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in

Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both. – Joseph Addison

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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. – Joseph Addison

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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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A generous confession disarms slander. – Thomas Fuller

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The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. – Sigmund Freud

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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible. – Joseph Addison

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Men are apt to offend (tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive. – William Congreve

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