| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 2448 |
| AUTHOR: | Edmund Waller (16061687) |
| QUOTATION: | Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Upon Roscommons Translation of Horace, De Arte Poetica. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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