Name | Birthday | Death Date | Nationality | father | Mother | Profession | Famous For |
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Joseph Addison | 1 May 1672 | 17 June 1719 | English | Lancelot Addison | Jane Gulston | Writer, Politician | Joseph Addison name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine. |
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"We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: we are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would no end of them."- On the Right Use of Time" - Joseph Addison