Adjusting the Vertical Spacing Between Consecutive Lines with a Scaled Typewriter Font

Question

Consider the code

\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{scalefnt}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{description}
\item {\fontfamily{lmvtt}\selectfont{No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday. ---Alexander Pope}}
\item {\fontfamily{lmvtt}\selectfont{\scalefont{0.65}{No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday. ---Alexander Pope}}}
\end{description}
\end{document}

which produces

QUESTION: How may I adjust (downward, in this instance) the vertical space between consecutive lines in the scaled (second) quote?

Thank you.

You have to finish the paragraph before you switch back to another font size to get correct spacing. — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Mar 21 '23 at 21:12
hmmm add another "again" to https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/634063/how-to-proportionately-adjust-vertical-spacing-between-the-lines-in-a-scaled-min#comment1580969_634063 — David Carlisle, Mar 21 '23 at 21:41
@DavidCarlisle \scalebox, for some reason, does not work with this example. — DDS, Mar 21 '23 at 21:49
@samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz I'm not sure what you mean by "finish the paragraph". — DDS, Mar 21 '23 at 21:50
@mlchristians Try with Pope\par and you should see the real line spacing of the fontsize — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Mar 21 '23 at 21:51
@samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Ah! yes! Thank you. Perhaps you will post this as an answer; and if possible, an explanation as to why \par is needed. Thanks again. — DDS, Mar 21 '23 at 21:53
scalebox unrelated, there as here you need to end the paragraph — David Carlisle, Mar 21 '23 at 21:53
@mlchristians There should be a lot of duplicates of this problem. — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Mar 21 '23 at 21:53
see the answer you accepted last time!! As always the line spacing used in a paragraph is the one in force at the end of the paragraph, so if you want the baseline spacing that is set by \scalefont you need (just as if you had used \small) to end the paragraph within its scope. — David Carlisle, Mar 21 '23 at 21:54
@DavidCarlisle I had looked at the answer; but I don't recall seeing \par someplace. Perhaps I should look again. — DDS, Mar 21 '23 at 21:56
@samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Thank you for the link; and for the previous comment. — DDS, Mar 21 '23 at 21:57
in that case I explained the issue in the text, In that case it didn't need \par I just deleted {...} so the paragraph ended in the scope of the size — David Carlisle, Mar 21 '23 at 22:02

Adjusting the Vertical Spacing Between Consecutive Lines with a Scaled Typewriter Font

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