gwern comments on Litany of a Bright Dilettante

[gwern]

A little Learning is a dang’rous Thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:
There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.

--Alexander Pope

[Shmi]

That sounds just about perfect. Mind adding it to the wiki as a “Litany of Alexander Pope” or something, for easy reference?

[gwern]

Let’s see if it gets any uptake before we do any canonizing.

[Yitz]

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