A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Joseph Addison Quotes

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.