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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:4022
AUTHOR:Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
QUOTATION: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.
ATTRIBUTION:Life of Addison.
 

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