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Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

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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
Live
Whilst
Vain

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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
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A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.
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Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.
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