A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct The language plain, and incidents well linkd Tell not as new what evry body knows and, new or old, still hasten to a close. (William Cowper)

A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct The language plain, and incidents well linkd Tell not as new what evry body knows and, new or old, still hasten to a close.

William Cowper

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