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There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Wiltshire
Joseph Addisson
Right Hon. Joseph Addison
Regard
Eye
Nothing
Dash
Much
Mirth
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Innocence
Folly
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