With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, w…

Joseph Addison
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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
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I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike. ✨ Joseph Addison (1839). Essays, Moral and Humoro … ▶
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Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy. ✨ Joseph Addison, Inchbald (1816). Cato: a tragedy in five acts, p.13
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