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Joseph Addison
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Joseph Addison?
→ A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
→ If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
→ Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
→ Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
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→ Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
→ A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
→ Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
→ Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
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Select the quotation attributed to Joseph Addison.
→ Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
→ What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
→ He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
→ There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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One of these may be attributed to Joseph Addison. Which one?
→ Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
→ Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
→ Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
→ Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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Which one of these belongs to Joseph Addison?
→ It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
→ Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
→ Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
→ Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Joseph Addison?
→ Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
→ Never cut what you can untie.
→ Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
→ Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Joseph Addison.
→ Anger cannot be dishonest.
→ Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
→ To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
→ The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
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