Ocupation: Essayist
Life: May 1, 1672 - June 17, 1719
Birthday: May 1
Death: June 17
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
source: Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.100
topic: Single, Passion, Pleasing Others, Funny Being Single, Happy Being Single