Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.
Source: In Spectator, no. 124 (London), 23 Jul 1711.
-- Joseph Addison, (May 1 1672-1719), English poet, essayist, playwright; He was a regular contributor to The Tatler (1709-11).