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“True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0bd4e4f598bd4c9ba2e0842dc3574fa017979ccae0dc627efff6e7498b1ca365
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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