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. I TAKE my title from these ...
I spent the better part of last night reading an essay by Alexander Pope. It was a Friday night when normal kids were in party mode. People my age were busy having fun and releasing the pressure ...
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 How dangerous ...
Nineteenth-century English poet Alexander Pope: “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” Corollary: “Omission of facts is deceitful.” Together, both expressions point to today’s ...
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