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Full Glossary for Fahrenheit 451

Keystone Comedy from 1914 to 1920, director Mack Sennett and Keystone Studios produced a series of madcap silent film comedies featuring the Keystone Cops.

A kind of excellent dumb discourse a line from Shakespeare's Tempest, Act III, Scene iii, Line 38.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force an aphorism from Chapter 13 of Dr. Samuel Johnson's Rasselas.

Knowledge is power a line from Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning, Book I, i, 3.

A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again a famous pair of couplets from Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism, which warns the learner that scholarship requires dedication for maximum effect.


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