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Excerpt from Sir Roger De Coverley: Essays From the Spectator
Dr. Johnson said, Of the half not written by Addison, not half was good and that whoever wishes to attain an English style familiar but not coarse, elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
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