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Joseph Addison

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Joseph Addison

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Joseph Addison is saying that only very knowledgeable or brilliant people can get away with being disorganized because their ideas are so valuable that readers will appreciate them even if they are not presented neatly. These individuals prefer to share many important thoughts all at once rather than carefully organizing each one in a precise order.

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