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“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 50ece495d746dd57fa5199c7b9326bb36b5c60dc555650515e9cfec273467166
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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