Thursday, July 6, 2023

Same empire of confident illiterates, different day


 Th' illiterate writer, emperick like applies
To minds diseas'd unsafe chance remedies.
The learn'd in schools, where knowledge first began,
Studies with care th' anatomy of man;
Sees virtue, vice, and passions in their cause,
And fame from science, not from fortune draws.

-- John Dryden