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Joseph Addison1672–1719

If I can any way contribute to the diversion or improvement of the country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

Joseph Addison on life and death

The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 1 (1 March 1711)

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