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The British poet Alexander Pope once observed that, "All gardening is landscape-painting."
Nigel Sheinwald: The Greenest Garden in Washington Nigel Sheinwald 2011
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But alas, to quote Alexander Pope, "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
Rabbi Shais Taub: Herman Cain, Respect And Sex Rabbi Shais Taub 2011
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For me, the poet Alexander Pope said it best in his 1734 An Essay On Man by observing that mankind is, Born but to die, and reasoning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much; ...
Len Filppu: Confessions of a Tony-the-Tiger Dad Len Filppu 2011
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The British poet Alexander Pope once observed that, "All gardening is landscape-painting."
Nigel Sheinwald: The Greenest Garden in Washington Nigel Sheinwald 2011
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Another letter was written to Lord Bathurst, a Tory peer and patron of the arts, whose house at Richings in Buckinghamshire became a salon for writers such as Alexander Pope.
Letters reveal Voltaire's exposure to English empiricism 2012
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For me, the poet Alexander Pope said it best in his 1734 An Essay On Man by observing that mankind is, Born but to die, and reasoning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much; ...
Len Filppu: Confessions of a Tony-the-Tiger Dad Len Filppu 2011
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Critics including Alexander Pope dismissed Theobald's claims but, more recently, others have suggested that Shakespeare had a hand in it.
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"Not so black as he's painted" is more coherent but perhaps more controversial these days; and I prefer "A little learning is a dangerous thing", which appears in Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism over a modern version I have seen: "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing".
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"Life in a Day" doesn't aspire to such intricacy, but it's fascinating all the same, an electronic update of Alexander Pope's maxim that the proper study of mankind is man.
Smart, Patchy, Sweet 'Crazy, Stupid, Love' Joe Morgenstern 2011
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The British poet Alexander Pope once observed that, "All gardening is landscape-painting."
Nigel Sheinwald: The Greenest Garden in Washington Nigel Sheinwald 2011
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