Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ✨ Joseph Addison,…

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ✨ Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume, p.270
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ✨ Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume, p.270

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