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Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others

Book by Joseph Addison · 3 quotes · Brutes, Cards, Continuance

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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.”

“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.”