Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ✨ Samuel Johnson (18…

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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1822). The Lives of the Most Eminent Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, p.120
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