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Poets Lose Half The Praise They Should Have Got, Could It Be Known What They Discreetly Blot.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
-- Edmund Waller (1605-1687)
-- Upon Roscommon's Translation of Horace, De Arte Poetica
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