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“He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Apology for Smectymnuus.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b19f4a5d1d372091afcc580c9b469c70baf1a9e7dd5a7eb61305a87cb2c19dc9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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