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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:3490
AUTHOR:Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
QUOTATION:In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold,
Alike fantastic if too new or old:
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
ATTRIBUTION:Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 133.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 

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