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Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. - Philip James Bailey

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Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Philip James Bailey

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Author Profession: Poet

Nationality: English

Born: April 22, 1816

Died: September 6, 1902

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Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Blake, Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth, John Keats, W. H. Auden, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Milton

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Art, First, First Step, Last, Natures, Simplicity, Step

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