One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human …

Alexander Pope
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. ✨ Alexander Pope (1835). The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly, p.60
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