Quote by Alexander Pope
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which th

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. – Alexander Pope

Other quotes by Alexander Pope

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. – Alexander Pope

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Learning
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. – Alexander Pope

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Men
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Art

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. – Oscar Wilde

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Art

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different. – Jack Nicholson

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Art

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user. – John Tillotson

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Art

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Americas future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live. – Jane Addams

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To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation — is there a worst trade one makes in life? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being. – Jane Austen

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Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. – Milton Friedman

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