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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

-Alexander Pope

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True Wit Is Nature To Advantage Dressed;

Alexander Pope

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

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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 their want of art. true wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

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 gives us back the image of our mind. as shades more sweetly recommend the light, so modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

Wit is artificial; humor is natural. wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

Writing is a kind of performing art, and i can't sit down to write unless i'm dressed. i don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and i have to be shaved and bathed.

A great work of art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - neither in art nor literature more than in life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.

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