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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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 us again.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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