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To buy books 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 made by some famous tailor.
To buy books 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 made by some famous tailor.
Approximate author period: c. 1716 AD · early modern
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- Author or tradition
- Alexander Pope
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- Approximate author period: c. 1716 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1688–1744)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 32 · printed citation: Pope · subject: Books
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