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  • Of little use, the man you may suppose,
    Who says in verse what others say in prose;
    Yet let me show a poet's of some weight,
    And (though no soldier) useful to the state,
    What will a child learn sooner than a song?
    What better teach a foreigner the tongue?
    What's long or short, each accent where to place
    And speak in public with some sort of grace?

    Alexander Pope (1829). “An Essay on Man: And Other Poems”, p.156