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Quotation from An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope
“A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”
An Essay on Criticism, Part II, lines 215-216 (Gutenberg #9800: The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (Boston: Ginn, 1906))
The danger of shallow knowledge.
Citation: "A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring." — Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Part II, lines 215-216 (Gutenberg #9800: The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (Boston: Ginn, 1906)). (id an-essay-on-criticism-q3)
Virtues: Humility
