Joseph Addison

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"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."	Age, Glory, Honor
"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter."	Humor, Laughter, Lies
"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."	Excellence, Friends, Happiness
"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."	Ability, Evil, Life
"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."	Art, Knowledge, Lies
"Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise."	Health
"Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art."	Music
"When a woman comes to her glass, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress."	Women
"Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage."	Education
"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius."	Success
"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."	Friendship
"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."	Government, Friends
"Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter."	Laughter
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Criticism	Darkness	Death
Destruction	Education	Evil
Excellence	Fear	Friends
Friendship	Genius	Glory
Government	Happiness	Health
Honor	Hope	Humor
Joy	Knowledge	Laughter
Lies	Life	Light
Love	Memory	Men
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Sin	Success	Teaching
Time	Violence	Virtue
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