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Alexander Pope Quote - Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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