| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 4405 |
| AUTHOR: | Edmund Burke (17291797) |
| QUOTATION: | Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 116. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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