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The last five or six years have shown a decline in the population . Perhaps as few as one in 1000 survives to adulthood.


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JOSEPH ADDISON The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the...
JOSEPH ADDISON Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
JOSEPH ADDISON Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and he...
JOSEPH ADDISON Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
JOSEPH ADDISON A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
JOSEPH ADDISON If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, ca...
JOSEPH ADDISON How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it JOSEPH ADDISON Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul w...
JOSEPH ADDISON The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures a...
JOSEPH ADDISON The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou sha...
JOSEPH ADDISON A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
JOSEPH ADDISON I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
JOSEPH ADDISON Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
JOSEPH ADDISON Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
JOSEPH ADDISON God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.
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