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This line is taken from Alexander Pope’s poem *“Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot”*, a part of his series of satirical verse epistles, and is one of the most famous examples of his pointed satirical commentary on the literary and moral culture of his time. Pope wrote this poem in 1735, addressing it to his friend and physician Dr John Arbuthnot, using it both as a personal statement and as a general satire on the hypocrisy and malice of the literary world. The excerpt—*“Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, / And without sneering, ______ _________ ___ _______ __________ _______ _______ _____ ________ ___.
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