Though not a participant in the Business of life; I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men.

Source:Letter to 'The Keicomolo'— Kleiner, Cole, and Moe (October 1916)
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