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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Milston
Wiltshire
Joseph Addisson
Right Hon. Joseph Addison
Sense
Lover
Beautiful
Familiar
Lovers
Soon
Grows
Beauty
Palls
Upon
Familiarity
Eye
Fades

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