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“A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.”
Provenance
- Source:
- On John Dryden. 1828.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 85bab7625dc3f3d97a4d3aafe410a2a716f11eb63ee1441006950d60a5e4939a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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