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Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

Joseph Addison
Beauty, Kindness, Absence
Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.402

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

Joseph Addison
Kindness, Lying, Men
Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.2953, Delphi Classics

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.

Joseph Addison
Kindness, Men, Dull
Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.160

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