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“Half-learn'd witlings”
― An Essay On Criticism
― An Essay On Criticism
“Some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools”
― An Essay On Criticism
― An Essay On Criticism
“In search of wit these lose their common sense”
― An Essay On Criticism
― An Essay On Criticism
“Launch not beyond your depth”
― An Essay On Criticism
― An Essay On Criticism
“In the view of conservationists, there is something special about dams, something—as conservation problems go—that is disproportionately and metaphysically sinister. The outermost circle of the Devil’s world seems to be a moat filled mainly with DDT. Next to it is a moat of burning gasoline. Within that is a ring of pinheads each covered with a million people—and so on past phalanxed bulldozers and bicuspid chain saws into the absolute epicenter of Hell on earth, where stands a dam.”
― Encounters with the Archdruid
― Encounters with the Archdruid
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