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Jane Brereton
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“The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length.”
Jane Brereton (1685–1740) said by 1740 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Beau Nash's Picture at full length between the Busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope., in Dyce, Specimens of British Poetesses. This epigram is generally ascribed to Chesterfield. See Campbell, English Poets, note, …