A little learning is a dangerous thing: Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. I TAKE my title from these ...
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. Evelyn Waugh was only 60 when he wrote this downbeat opening to his memoir, A Little Learning.
Nineteenth-century English poet Alexander Pope: “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” Corollary: “Omission of facts is deceitful.” Together, both expressions point to today’s ...
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