A Quote by Joseph Addison on imagination, surprise, curiosity, new, and idea

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Joseph Addison : English writer, statesman, publisher, essayist & poet
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
 
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