Alexander PopeАлександр Поуп
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Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
7. Человек бывает настолько самонадеян, насколько он ограничен пониманием.
7. A man is as presumptuous as he is limited in understanding.
Pope.
From Thoughts on Various Subjects · close to the original (more).
What Tolstoy read · Many Thoughts of Many Minds, compiled by Henry SouthgateEvery man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding …
Source text: archive.orgPope’s own wordsEvery man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Thoughts on Various Subjects, Among the first of the Thoughts; The Works of Alexander Pope, ed. Elwin and Courthope, vol. X (London: Murray, 1886), p. 551.
Pope's one-sentence thought, which Southgate's Many Thoughts of Many Minds (on the Jubilee list of Tolstoy's sources) prints under 'Vanity—Weakness of'; Klopsch's anthology of the same title (1896) has it too, so which Tolstoy read is not certain. Close in form, with one word changed: Pope's 'vanity' becomes 'self-assurance' (Человек бывает настолько самонадеян), where on the same day Tolstoy renders Penn's 'Vain Man' (8-7.2) as «Тщеславный»; 'as he wants understanding' (lacks it) becomes 'as he is limited in understanding'. No printable, for the changed word; Pope's own line is short enough to show beside Tolstoy's.