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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

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Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

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It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out.

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A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.

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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

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The proper study of Mankind is Man.

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Health consists with temperance alone.

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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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'Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree's incln'd.

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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

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