Joseph Addison, Presciently, on Today’s Political Discourse

“Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all water about him until he becomes invisible.”

Joseph Addison

Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

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