Quote by Joseph Addison
The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. – Joseph Addison

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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us. – Joseph Addison

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. – Joseph Addison

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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. – Joseph Addison

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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. – Walter Bagehot

People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style. – Matthew Arnold

To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do. – Aristotle

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