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Quotes › Authors › J › Joseph Addison › Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that imm
  • Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

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