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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. - Joseph Addison

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. – Joseph Addison

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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. – Joseph Addison

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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. – Joseph Addison

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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. – W. H. Auden

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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. – W. H. Auden

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

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It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. – Margaret Anderson

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