"True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed."
— Wit

January 1, 1970

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Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709), Part II, line 97. "Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed." As paraphrased by Johnson, Life of Cowley.