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Date: Monday, March 19, 1711
"Extinguish Vanity in the Mind, and you naturally retrench the little Superfluities of Garniture and Equipage. The Blossoms will fall of themselves, when the Root that nourishes them is destroyed."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)