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Quote by Joseph Addison
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagin

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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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible. – Joseph Addison

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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. – Joseph Addison

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Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it. – Terry Wogan

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Man lives by imagination. – Havelock Ellis

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To put yourself in anothers place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily. – Juliette Gordon Low

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