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Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
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Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.
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