The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Joseph Addison Quotes

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.