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Learning Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
- 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…
- Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
- Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
- No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were…
- A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
- Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
- A little learning is a dangerous thing.
- A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers…
- 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…
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