Background Image

To Buy Books As Some Do Who Make No Use Of Them, Only Because They Were Published By An Eminent Printer, Is Much As If A Man Should Buy Clothes That Did Not Fit Him, Only Because They Were Made By Some Famous Tailor.

-Alexander Pope

Please Wait....
Translating....

To Buy Books As Some Do Who

Alexander Pope

To Buy Books As Some Do Who Make No Use Of Them, Only Because They Were Published By An Eminent Printer, Is Much As If A Man Should Buy Clothes That Did Not Fit Him, Only Because They Were Made By Some Famous Tailor.

Views: 2

Topic

More From Alexander Pope

How Instinct Varies In The Grov'ling Swine.

Behold The Child, By Nature's Kindly Law Pleased With A Rattle, Tickled With A Straw.

How Happy Is The Blameless Vestal's Lot? The World Forgetting, By The World Forgot.

Therefore They Who Say Our Thoughts Are Not Our Own Because They Resemble The Ancients, May As Well Say Our Faces Are Not Our Own, Because They Are Like Our Fathers: And Indeed It Is Very Unreasonable, That People Should Expect Us To Be Scholars, And Yet Be Angry To Find Us So.

Who Know But He, Whose Hand The Lightning Forms, Who Heaves Old Ocean, And Who Wings The Storms, Pours Fierce Ambition In A Caesar's Mind.

Trending Author

John W. Gardner

Emily Greene Balch

Marguerite Duras

Michael Nesmith

Quotes by Topics

Category