Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination because it fills the soul w Joseph Addison Quotes
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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.

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