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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Critics and Criticism
Joseph Addison

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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
Stardom
Joseph Addison

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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
Dress
Joseph Addison

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There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
Business
Joseph Addison

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There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
Beauty
Joseph Addison

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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
Solitude
Joseph Addison

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We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
Seriousness
Joseph Addison

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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
Patriotism
Joseph Addison

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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.
Education
Joseph Addison

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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
Benefactors
Joseph Addison

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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
Injury
Joseph Addison

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

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun