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A little learning is a dangerous thing;[323-3] Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!

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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.[323-4]

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True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.

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Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

_Essay on Criticism.