“Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.”
Source: Epigrams, pp. 372-373
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Book VIII, Chapter V
Institutes of the Coenobia (c. 420 AD)

“Coffee, which makes the politician wise,
And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.”
Canto III, line 117.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 277.