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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.311
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.