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“A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat; A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility,-- Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.”
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- Source:
- Delight in Disorder.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cbb9b81d3d216a48c5714f3f2dc10b09b91020df98216c39d30931a8feeaf8ed
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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