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“Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Essay on Poetry.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3dd1b5be3860f481682ca6a68f1016225fbb8f16895f3a335efd47a0359f6a71
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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