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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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