“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.”

—  Alexander Pope

Preface.
The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717)

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