“Should the whole frame of Nature round him break,
In ruin and confusion hurled,
He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack,
And stand secure amidst a falling world.”

— Joseph Addison

Translation of Horace, Odes, Book III, ode iii.

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politician, writer and playwright 1672–1719

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