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Edward Young
(Jun 1683 - 5 Apr 1765)
English writer.
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Science Quotes by Edward Young (1)
How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun!
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun!
— Edward Young
Edward Young and John Mitford, 'Love of Fame, the Universal Passion', Satire VII, The Poetical Works of Edward Young (1858), Vol. 2, 136. In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 162:24.
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