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The only thing that frightens me, Chloe, is that you keep lessening the six degrees of separation in our lives.


Addison Moore

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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 ...
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