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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:2448
AUTHOR:Edmund Waller (1606–1687)
QUOTATION:Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
ATTRIBUTION:Upon Roscommon’s Translation of Horace, De Arte Poetica.
 

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