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It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. 'T is more by art than force of num'rous strokes.
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. 'T is more by art than force of num'rous strokes.
Approximate author period: c. 1716 AD · early modern
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- Alexander Pope
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- Approximate author period: c. 1716 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiii. Line 383.
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