| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 46744 |
| QUOTATION: | Mountains of Whimseys, heaped in his own Brain,
Stumbling from thought to thought, falls headlong down
Into Doubt’s boundless Sea, where like to drown,
Books bear him up a while, and make him try
To swim with Bladders of Philosophy, |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Wilmot, 2d Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680), British poet. A Satire against Mankind (l. 17–21). . .
Oxford Book of Satirical Verse, The. Geoffrey Grigson, comp. (1980) Oxford University Press. |
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