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“Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part; Nature in him was almost lost in Art.”
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- quote
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- 2026-07-04
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- 70b32a7a8b520b8ee88c5f42259245958b086e0389a29b7ad8e0d0e4a8e84b37
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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