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Quote by Joseph Addison
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. – Joseph Addison

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We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us. – Joseph Addison

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