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Painters Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
- Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments…
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