“True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise.”

— Joseph Addison, The Spectator, No. 15 (17 March 1711)

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1672 – 1719

English essayist, poet and politician, co-founder of 'The Spectator' and author of the tragedy 'Cato' (1713).

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