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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 594
AUTHOR: Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
QUOTATION: Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;
And all who told it, added something new,
And all who heard it, made Enlargements too,
In ev’ry Ear it spread, on ev’ry Tongue it grew.
ATTRIBUTION: ALEXANDER POPE, “Temple of Fame,” lines 469–72, Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. Geoffrey Tillotson, vol. 2, p. 269 (1940, revised 1954).
SUBJECTS: Fame
 


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