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DRAMATISTS > poet, essayist, playwright > Joseph Addison
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
Source: Syphax, in Cato, act 2, sc. 5. -- Joseph Addison, (May 1 1672-1719), English poet, essayist, playwright; He was a regular contributor to The Tatler (1709-11).