Alexander Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount, with the Works of Voiture, line 22.
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A long, exact, and serious comedy;
In every scene some moral let it teach,
And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
— Acting
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "A long, exact, and serious comedy;
In every scene some moral let it teach,
And, if it can, at once both please and preach." in the context of "Alexander Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount, with the Works of Voiture, line 22." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Acting" (Y, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 4-6.)
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