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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.   Addison, Joseph

Excerpt from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series · This quote is about dullness · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.


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Joseph Addison (May 1, 1672 June 17, 1719) was an English politician and writer. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.

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