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Common Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Education forms the common mind.
- I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as…
- With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.
- Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from…
- Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
- Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
- Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught,…
- 'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
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