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  • In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.

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    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1819). “The Spectator”, p.21

  • I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

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    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1810). “The Spectator”, p.20

  • In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

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    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1801). “The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads”, p.55
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Joseph Addison

  • Born: May 1, 1672
  • Died: June 17, 1719
  • Occupation: Essayist
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