—) I think it was a pope — Pope Alexander or somebody? — who wrote,
“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.”
I got it off BrainyQuotes on-line that had a lot of other smart-sounding junk. Don’t know … seems kind of “woke,” to me. He’d better not try teaching school in Florida! (—
—) I think it was a pope — Pope Alexander or somebody? — who wrote,
“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.”
I got it off BrainyQuotes on-line that had a lot of other smart-sounding junk. Don’t know … seems kind of “woke,” to me. He’d better not try teaching school in Florida! (—