Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon…

Joseph Addison
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ✨ Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1778). The Spectator, p.26
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ✨ Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1778). The Spectator, p.26

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