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True Wit Quotes by Alexander Pope
- True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
- 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…
- True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That…
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- True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed. — Alexander Pope
- Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never… — Lord Chesterfield
- True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another. — Walter Savage Landor
- The well of true wit is truth itself. — George Meredith
- When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but… — George Herbert
- Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And… — Alexander Pope
- True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight… — Alexander Pope