To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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Who often, but without success, have prayed For apt Alliteration's artful aid.
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So loud each tongue, so empty was each head, So much they talked, so very little said.
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