Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by, the doubling of our joy, and diving of our grief;

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"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters, there is something which there are no words to express."

- Joseph Addison

Love

"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter."

- Joseph Addison

Love

"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives, there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express."

- Joseph Addison

Love

"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."

- Joseph Addison

Compassion

"True happiness…arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self."

- Joseph Addison

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