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Quotation from An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope

“For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.”

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism, Part III, line 625 (Gutenberg #9800: The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (Boston: Ginn, 1906))

The rash confidence of the foolish critic.

Citation: "For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread." — Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Part III, line 625 (Gutenberg #9800: The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (Boston: Ginn, 1906)). (id an-essay-on-criticism-q6)

Virtues: Prudence

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