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Poetic Justice, With Her Lifted Scale, Where In Nice Balance Truth With Gold She Weighs, And Solid Pudding Against Empty Praise.
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Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale,
Where in nice balance truth with gold she weighs,
And solid pudding against empty praise.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- The Dunciad, Book i, Line 52
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