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Joseph Addison : Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer. # Dullness # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading

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Charles Churchill : " Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor. " # Dullness # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading

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Samuel Johnson : " Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great. " # Dullness # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading

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Oscar Wilde : " Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness. " # Dullness # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading

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Samuel Foote : " What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others. " # Dullness # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading

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Sir Richard Steele : " It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it. " # Dullness # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading

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Oliver Wendell Holmes : " What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds. " # Dullness # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading

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St Thomas More : " They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters and to wrest the laws, and, therefore, they think it is much better that every man should plead his own cause, and trust it to the judge, as in other places the client trusts it to a counsellor; by this means they both cut off many delays and find out truth more certainly; for after the parties have laid open the merits of the cause, without those artifices which lawyers are apt to suggest, the judge examines the whole matter, and supports the simplicity of such well-meaning persons, whom otherwise crafty men would be sure to run down; and thus they avoid those evils which appear very remarkably among all those nations that labour under a vast load of laws. Every one of them is skilled in their law; for, as it is a very short study, so the plainest meaning of which words are capable is always the sense of their laws; and they argue thus: all laws are promulgated for this end, that every man may know his duty; and, therefore, the plainest and most obvious sense of the words is that which ought to be put upon them, since a more refined exposition cannot be easily comprehended, and would only serve to make the laws become useless to the greater part of mankind, and especially to those who need most the direction of them; for it is all one not to make a law at all or to couch it in such terms that, without a quick apprehension and much study, a man cannot find out the true meaning of it, since the generality of mankind are both so dull, and so much employed in their several trades, that they have neither the leisure nor the capacity requisite for such an inquiry. " # Dullness # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading

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Polybius : " I observe that while several modern writers deal with particular wars and certain matters connected with them, no one, as far as I am aware, has even attempted to inquire critically when and whence the general and comprehensive scheme of events originated and how it led up to the end. I therefore thought it quite necessary not to leave unnoticed or allow to pass into oblivion this the finest and most beneficent of the performances of Fortune. For though she is ever producing something new and ever playing a part in the lives of men, she has not in a single instance ever accomplished such a work, ever achieved such a triumph, as in our own times. We can no more hope to perceive this from histories dealing with particular events than to get at once a notion of the form of the whole world, its disposition and order, by visiting, each in turn, the most famous cities, or indeed by looking at separate plans of each: a result by no means likely. He indeed who believes that by studying isolated histories he can acquire a fairly just view of history as a whole, is, as it seems to me, much in the case of one, who, after having looked at the dissevered limbs of an animal once alive and beautiful, fancies he has been as good as an eyewitness of the creature itself in all its action and grace. " # Dullness # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading

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Charles Evans Hughes : " It is not surprising that many should be captivated by the proposal, with its delusive simplicity and adequacey, for the outlawry of war. War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. The suggestion, however futile in itself, has at least the merit of bringing us to the core of the problem. Even among its sponsors appear at once the qualifications which reflect the old distinction, so elaborately argued by Grotius, between just and unjust wars. "The grounds of war," said he, " are as numerous as those of judicial actions. For where the power of law ceases, there war begins." He found the justifiable causes generally assigned for war to be three — defense, indemnity, and punishment. War is self-help, and the right to make war has been recognized as the corollary of independence, the permitted means by which injured nations protect their territory and maintain their rights. International law leaves aggrieved states who cannot obtain redress for their wrongs by peaceful means to exact it by force. If war is outlawed, other means of redress of injuries must be provided. Moreover, few, if any, intend to outlaw self-defense, a right still accorded to individuals under all systems of law. To meet this difficulty, the usual formula is limited to wars of aggression. But justification for war, as recently demonstrated, is ready at hand for those who desire to make war, and there is rarely a case of admitted aggression, or where on each side the cause is not believed to be just by the peoples who support the war. There is a further difficulty that lies deeper. There is no lawgiver for independent States. There is no legislature to impose its will by majority vote, no executive to give effect even to accepted rules. The outlawry of war necessarily implies a self-imposed restraint, and free peoples, jealous of their national safety, of their freedom of opportunity, of the rights and privileges they deem essential to their well-being, will not forego the only sanction at their command in extreme exigencies. The restraints they may be willing to place upon themselves will always be subject to such conditions as will leave them able to afford self-protection by force, and in this freedom there is abundant room for strife sought to be justified by deep-seated convictions of national interests, by long-standing grievances by the apprehension of aggression to be forestalled. The outlawry of war, by appropriate rule of law making war a crime, requires the common accord needed to establish and maintain a rule of international law, the common consent to abandon war; and the suggested remedy thus implies a state of mind in which no cure is needed. As the restraint is self-imposed it will prove to be of avail only while there is a will to peace. " # Dullness # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading

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Joan Didion : " We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. " # Dullness # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading

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Joseph Addison: " Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." # Happiness # Freedom # Power

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Joseph Addison: " Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week." # Work

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Joseph Addison: " What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." # Appreciation # Smile # Love

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Joseph Addison: " Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief." # Friends and Friendship

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Joseph Addison: " There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty." # Beauty

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Joseph Addison: " Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other." # Consequences

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Joseph Addison: " What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul." # Education # Architecture # Sculptures

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Joseph Addison: " The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them." # Death and Dying # Fear # Infallibility

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Joseph Addison: " Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below." # Music # Death and Dying # Heaven

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Joseph Addison: " A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world." # Contentment # Love # Enjoyment

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