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Chloe, poetess and beauty, is in two small things perverse;
She makes up her own complexion, but she writes not her own verse.

— Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun Dictionary of Quotations: French and Italian (1904)

Chloé, belle et poète, a deux petits travers:
Elle fait son visage et ne fait pas ses vers.

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This epigram is often quoted "Eglé, belle et poète," etc. | p. 31

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