One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title-page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
Oliver Goldsmith
Art & Imagination
A quote by Oliver Goldsmith
From the source
The Bee. No. 1, Oct. 6, 1759.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.