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"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." - Copy to Clipboard
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-- Joseph Addison
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| Top 5 quotes from Joseph Addison |
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"Music can noble hints impart,
Engender fury, kindle love,
With unsuspected eloquence can move,
And manage all the man with secret art."
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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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"Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life."
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"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."
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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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