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“Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.”
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- Source:
- Life of Addison.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 70c51551296731c251839a2535f591e83a6a9a4064cb14df2bba9d3d4b632ccc
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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