Did Alexander Pope say “A little learning is a dangerous thing”?

Did Alexander Pope say “A little learning is a dangerous thing”?

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The "Essay on Criticism" sums up the art of poetry as taught first by Horace, then by Boileau and the eighteenth-century classicists. Though written in heroic couplets, we hardly consider this as a poem but rather as a storehouse of critical maxims. "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"; "To err is human, to forgive divine"; "A little learning is a dangerous thing,"--these lines, and many
English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World — William J. Long, CHAPTER IX · ¶914 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #10609 · source

Of course I am far from designing to say anything against the widest study, which great libraries exist to supply and to encourage; and all utterances of a half-truth, like the maxim I have quoted, are exaggerations. But the saying points a moral--and that is, the supreme importance of thoroughness in all that we undertake. The poetical wiseacre who endowed the world with the maxim, "A little lear
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries — Ainsworth Rand Spofford, CHAPTER 9. · ¶462 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #22608 · source

However, it may be said that the risk of theological error is so serious, and the effects of theological conceit are so mischievous, that it is better for a youth to know nothing of the sacred subject, than to have a slender knowledge which he can use freely and recklessly, for the very reason that it is slender. And here we have the maxim in corroboration: “A little learning is a dangerous thing.
The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin — John Henry Newman, ¶867 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #24526 · source

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