Breast milk is big business." My mother uses my sarcasm as a springboard for her insanity. "We should consider opening a shop that caters to that market. We can call it 'The Milk Bar' or 'Mother's Milk'."

...Ethan slaps his hand on the counter. "We can have ice cream made from that shit." He nods into my mother, stony faces, as if he didn't just let an expletive fly.


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JOSEPH ADDISON
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its obje...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
JOSEPH ADDISON
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of...
JOSEPH ADDISON
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
JOSEPH ADDISON
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
JOSEPH ADDISON
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarre...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to...
JOSEPH ADDISON
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with i...
JOSEPH ADDISON
It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addis...
ADDISON WALKER
The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Much might be said on both sides.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Should the whole frame of nature round him break In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds wh...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to save our country!
JOSEPH ADDISON
O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate; How can I see th...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure! . . . . Endless...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everythin...
JOSEPH ADDISON
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentl...
JOSEPH ADDISON
When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the li...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain,...
JOSEPH ADDISON
But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny an...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it
JOSEPH ADDISON
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what...
JOSEPH ADDISON
A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit g...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenit...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISON
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhab...
JOSEPH ADDISON
My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
JOSEPH ADDISON
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way To all the pangs and fury of despair.
JOSEPH ADDISON
When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has wri...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its obj...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its obje...
JOSEPH ADDISON
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!
JOSEPH ADDISON
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabi...
JOSEPH ADDISON
If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strength...
JOSEPH ADDISON
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, (In spite of all the virtue we can boast), The ...
JOSEPH ADDISON