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Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Hunter S. Thompson

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Thompson, Hunter S. “Security.” The Spectator, 1951.

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When you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.

Sir Richard Steele

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Steele, Richard, Sir. The Spectator. 26 Apr. 1711.

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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttle-fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him till he becomes invisible.

Joseph Addison

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Addison, Joseph. The Spectator. London, 5 Sept. 1712, no. 476.

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True Happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise: it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Joseph Addison

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Addison, Joseph. The Spectator. London, 17 March 1711, no. 15.

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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Joseph Addison

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Addison, Joseph. The Spectator. London, 10 Sept. 1711, no. 166.

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By the "Establishment," I do not mean only the centers of official power-though they are certainly part of it-but rather the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised.

Henry Fairlie

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Fairlie, Henry. "How The Spectator invented the Establishment." The Spectator, 23 Sept. 1955.

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