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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.

So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)

Printed page 503 · quotation 12 · Pope · Essay on Criticism. L. 108.

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