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In Vain Sedate Reflections We Would Make When Half Our Knowledge We Must Snatch, Not Take.
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In vain sedate reflections we would make
When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 39
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