Disputed quotes — Joseph Addison
1672–1719 England
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
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Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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