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Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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