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Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the t

Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the trees inclined. – Alexander Pope

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It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. – Alexander Pope

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