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  The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex. -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act i, Sc. 4...
• There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
  -- Joseph Addiso...
• Tenderness is the repose of Passion. Joseph Joube
• Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. -- Joseph Addiso
• Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. -- Joseph Addiso
• TRIANGLE Three-sided object which, even in isosceles form, begins to get very boring after only a short time.
  For maximum excitement, an object with many more sides should be considered....
• In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burde
  I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me....
• Once upon a time, there was a fisherman who lived by a great river.
  One day, after a hard day's fishing, he hooked what seemed to him to be the biggest, strongest fish he had ever caught....
• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
  The philosopher, the saint, the hero, the wise, and the good, or the great, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred and brought to light....