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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. - Joseph Addison

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English politician and writer, 1672 - 1719

Born:1st May, 1672
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Starsign: Taurus

Author Keywords: Writer, Politician, English

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