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Books Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times.
- Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder,…
- The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to…
- Next o'er his books his eyes begin to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.
- The fate of all extremes is such: men may be read, as well as books, too much.
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