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“Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale, Where in nice balance truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Dunciad. Book i. Line 52.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e6be074aa20a7227c018d0b0425b5882e76501740d2c881b29c58d924ff065ab
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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