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Quotes from Essays and Tales — Joseph Addison

1672–1719 England

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As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, ‘Surely,’ said I, ‘man is but a shadow, and life a dream.’

Essays and Tales (1888)

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