It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those an…

Joseph Addison
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. ✨ Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1873). The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, p.425
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. ✨ Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1873). The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, p.425

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