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“E'en copious Dryden wanted or forgot The last and greatest art,--the art to blot.”
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- Book
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- 2026-07-04
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- ac8f9ecf6a61745a65d4b524508a5065d0a7039d9567758dcad2e05d2a06c929
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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