True Ease In Writing Comes From Art, Not Chance, As Those Move Easiest Who Have Learn'd To Dance.

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
'T is not enough no harshness gives offence,--
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 162

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