Alexander Pope on Foolishness
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“Die and endow a college or a cat.”
“No creature smarts so little as a fool.”
“The fool is happy that he knows no more.”
“The rest on outside merit but presume, Or serve (like other fools) to fill a room.”
“Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.”
“We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so.”
“Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, Whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.”
“So by false learning is good sense defac'd; Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools.”
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