Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

 

Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.
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Sidney, Defence of Poesy. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.

 

Philip Sidney

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