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Alexander Pope: Conceit is to...

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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it not only is useless, but it impairs what it would improve.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Alexander Pope, (May 21 1688-1744), English poet; He is remembered as a major satirist of Augustan age; wrote The Rape of the Lock, 1714 and Moral Essays, 1731-35.


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