- Joseph Addison
(05/01/1672 – 06/17/1719)
English writer
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"'We are always doing', says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.'"
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"To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion."
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"What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy."
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"A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts."
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"Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth-decay in His divine system of creation?"
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| "I don't know where my songs come from . . . If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane." |  |
"To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head."
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"[Being in the band is] like being married with four people you never even wanted to date."
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