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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. - Samuel Johnson

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. – Samuel Johnson

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There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. – Samuel Johnson

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