Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… polite sociability is epitomized in what is perhaps his most famous sentence: ‘It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in …
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