Quote by Alexander Pope
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? - Alexander Pope

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? – Alexander Pope

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. – Alexander Pope

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Behold the child, by Natures kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. – Alexander Pope

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Nature
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Order is Heavens first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king. – Alexander Pope

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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. – Hosea Ballou

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Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. – Jonathan Swift

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By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. – Eric Hoffer

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