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Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism Quotes: Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our isle As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile
         

Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our isle As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile


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Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles, but notions prizeAnd all to one loved folly sacrifice.

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