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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost what I possessed is left to others what I gave away remains with me.'
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The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.
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