In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not the first by whom the New are try’d,
Nor yet the last to lay the Old aside.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet
“An Essay on Criticism,” l. 333–36 (1711)

 
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