Eustace Budgell
Writer
1686-08-19 – 1737-05-04
Eustace Budgell was an English writer and politician associated with early eighteenth-century literary circles. He contributed essays to The Spectator and was known for prose influenced by Addisonian style. His public and literary life was intertwined with Whig political networks.
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Quotes by Eustace Budgell
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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness in another.
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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness in another.
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When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?
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When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.
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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
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It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can scarce have a clear and distinct idea of them our selves.
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