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Alexander Pope Quotes: True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well express'd.
         

True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well express'd.


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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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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.



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