Play hard to get. You should be.


Addison Moore

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Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
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I am not one to chase my prey. It either crosses my lips or is tossed away.
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Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget.
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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.
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You don't have to have any talent to play hard. You can't coach playing hard.
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It felt good to get out and play. This should help us going into conference play.
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It's hard to get started. Hard because you want to lay on the couch and be lazy.
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To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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"If I eat your food I WILL die." He belches before reaching in the fridge ...
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We could call him Gynecological Gage or Assman - AssHOLE - take your pick.
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"If s...
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Right. Like I'm going to lose my freaking mind and hop right down the demonic bunny trail with Marsh...
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Hell - you'll be lucky to join the circus!"
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Personally." My mother digs a smile into the side of her cheek. "I'm rooting for Logan."

...
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There are two covenants that cease to exist in the Master's Kingdom - death and marriage."
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She is INSANE," I scream, standing in the middle of Marshall's living room.
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You didn't happen to see your future mother-in-law at that meeting today, did you?" May as well milk...
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Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
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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