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“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”

Joseph Addison · Legal

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Joseph Addison

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Imagination

Joseph Addison

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Nature

Joseph Addison

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Nature

Joseph Addison

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Music