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“A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Retaliation. Line 63.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bf905f8161a8712940d85e687e598eb9301ea43cd0d38ab6f0ca5705abe0626b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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