scribble quotes

   Another damned, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr Gibbon?

-Gloucester,William Henry, 1st Duke of
  Attributed, when presented with the second volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. These words have also been attributed to George III and the Duke of Cumberland.

But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

-Pope, Alexander
  Imitations of Horace, bk.2, epistle1, l.187^8.

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