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Alexander Pope Quotes: True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
         

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.


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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

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