There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than t…

Joseph Addison
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There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. ✨ Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160, p.460
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