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- A little learning is a dangerous thing;
drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. - Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), An essay on Criticism
- Man: the glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- An honest man is the noblest work of God.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd; - Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), "Eloisa to Abelard"
- The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives me the greater freedom of playing the fool.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. - Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), An Essay on Criticism
- There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
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