“The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger: the first is a perpetual call upon them to propogate their kind; the latter to preserve themselves.”

— Joseph Addison

No. 120 (18 July 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)

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politician, writer and playwright 1672–1719

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