Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous. (Alexander Pope)

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous.

Alexander Pope

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