There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It i…

Joseph Addison
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance ✨ Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, p.464
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance ✨ Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, p.464

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