What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a ma…

Joseph Addison
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. ✨ Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). The Spectator, p.243
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