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Who breaks a...
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
Source: Lord Hervey, in Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (1735). The line has passed into common usage, and was made famous in the 1960s when it was used to head the London Times leader (1 July 1967), on Mick Jagger
-- Alexander Pope, (May 21 1688-1744), English poet; He is remembered as a major satirist of Augustan age; wrote The Rape of the Lock, 1714 and Moral Essays, 1731-35.